How the 2023 Al Haouz earthquake provides a traumatic backdrop to Morocco’s hosting of AFCON

“The residents of Asni, a village in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains, describe the snow-capped view as ‘paradise’. Above them is the tallest peak in North Africa, Mount Toubkal, which seems right there but is in fact a two-to-three-day hike from the nearest road — getting to which is itself a treacherous drive of several hours, usually requiring a 4×4 vehicle to coil around bone-dry gorges and navigate hairpin bends. The russet-coloured valley that leads towards Toubkal is a beautiful, sweeping...