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Children wash sheep with soap before they are offered for sale for the upcoming Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, on the beach in Dakar, Senegal Thursday, July 30, 2020. Even in the best of times, many Muslims in West Africa scramble to afford a sheep to slaughter on the Eid al-Adha holiday, a display of faith that often costs as much as a month's income, and now the coronavirus is wreaking havoc on people's budgets putting an important religious tradition beyond financial reach. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Livestock prices stress Muslims in Africa ahead of Eid

By BABACAR DIONE and KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, June 26, 2020 file photo, people gather at a reopened beach on the first weekend after lockdown measures were lifted in Sale, Morocco. Morocco will start gradually reopening its air and maritime borders next week after one of the world’s strictest border lockdowns, which trapped tourists inside the country and left thousands of Moroccans stranded abroad and unable to come home. Only Moroccan citizens and expatriates living in Morocco will be allowed to travel in the first stage of the reopening starting July 14. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, file)

Morocco to start reopening borders after strict lockdown

By AMIRA EL-MASAITI - Associated Press

In this May 2, 2017 file photo, Morocco's King Mohammed VI, left, smiles as he arrives at the Elysee Palace to meet France's President Francois Hollande in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Morocco’s king, 56, undergoes successful heart surgery

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Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Levi Banon and his son Mendel, 12, read a religious text at their home library in Casablanca, Morocco, Thursday, May 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

In Morocco, tiny Jewish community grapples with virus

By MARIAM FAM - Associated Press

In this Friday, May 22, 2020, photo, Moroccan citizens wait for repatriation after being stranded in Spain due to the coronavirus pandemic in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Spain. (Faro de Ceuta via AP)

Moroccans trapped in Spain for 2 months head home at last

By AMIRA EL-MASAITI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019 file photo, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the UNHCR - Global Refugee Forum at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. When financial markets collapsed and the world faced its last great crisis in 2008, major powers worked together to restore the global economy, but the COVID-19 pandemic has been striking for the opposite response. The financial crisis gave birth to the leaders’ summit of the Group of 20, the world’s richest countries responsible for 80% of the global economy. But when Guterres proposed ahead of their summit in late March that G-20 leaders adopt a “wartime” plan and cooperate on the global response to suppress the virus, there was no response (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

UN chief urges faith leaders to challenge harmful messages

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

‘We want to go home’: Moroccans stranded by virus seek help

By AMIRA EL-MASAITI - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, stranded tourists in motor homes queue in northern Morocco, near the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Tourists were stranded in the region due to a lockdown and other strict measures taken by Moroccan authorities to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Andy McKettrick via AP)

Hundreds of tourists stranded in Moroccan lockdown

By AMIRA EL-MASAITI - Associated Press

A member of security forces inspects a permit allowing a woman to leave her home, after a health state of emergency was declared and members of the public ordered to a home confinement, in Rabat, Morocco, Sunday, March 22, 2020. For some people the COVID-19 coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, but for some it can cause severe illness including pneumonia.(AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

As lockdowns kill jobs, Africa’s informal workers suffer

By AMIRA EL-MASAITI - Associated Press

Spain rescues 119 migrants, launches search for 67 missing

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People gather for a demonstration in Rabat, Morocco, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020. Thousands of Moroccans took part in a march rejecting Trump's Middle East peace plan and in support of Palestinians. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Moroccans protest Trump’s Mideast plan, support Palestinians

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Woman sues TripAdvisor after falling off runaway camel

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Spanish NGOs accuse Spain of illegal migrant push-back

By RENATA BRITO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, July 11, 2019, photo, people stand outside a court in Sale, Morocco. Moroccan courts have sentenced a Youtube user who criticized the king to prison and also detained a journalist-activist who defended anti-government protesters in a tweet. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)

Moroccan YouTuber sentenced to prison, journalist detained

By AMIRA EL-MASAITI - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Arrifino website, medics transport survivors of a migrant shipwreck to a hospital in Nador, northern Morocco, Monday, Dec. 16, 2019. Seven Sub-Saharan migrants died Monday and 70 other people were rescued when their boat sank while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Morocco to Spain, according to a military official (Arrifino via AP)

Moroccan military: 7 migrants dead, 70 saved from shipwreck

By AMIRA EL-MASAITI - Associated Press

In this Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 photo, Moroccan rapper Abdelkrim Bouhjir, known as Kouz1, performs at a rap concert as part of the Visa for Music festival in Rabat, Morocco. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Moroccan rapper gets year in prison for critical video

By AMIRA EL-MASAITI - Associated Press

Van with 52 migrants smashes through Spanish enclave border

By CIARÁN GILES - Associated Press

Ivanka Trump, the daughter and senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, is interviewed by the Associated Press, Friday, Nov. 8, 2019, in Rabat, Morocco. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ivanka Trump: Whistleblower’s ID irrelevant to impeachment

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

Farmer Aicha Bourkib kisses Ivanka Trump's hand, the daughter and senior adviser to President Donald Trump, in the province of Sidi Kacem, Morocco, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, as Ivanka Trump tours an olive grove collective where local women farmers are benefitting from changes allowing them to inherit land. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ivanka Trump meets with female landowners on Morocco trip

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

Ivanka Trump, the daughter and senior adviser to President Donald Trump, is greeted by Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco and is offered dates and milk, as she arrives in Rabat, Morocco, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, where she will promote a global economical program for women. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

A princess, dates and milk welcome Ivanka Trump to Morocco

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press