Morocco reached the last 16 of the Africa Cup of Nations with a 1-0 victory over Ivory Coast in Group D. Youssef En-Nesyri scored the game’s only goal in the first half after a clever pass from Nordin Amrabat. Ivory Coast had gone close with just 38 seconds gone when Wolves’ Romain Saiss cleared a header from Aston Villa’s Jonathan …

Pope Francis heads to Morocco on Saturday, the first pope to do so in 35 years, with interreligious dialogue and immigration on the agenda. The Argentine pontiff will be welcomed by the North African country’s population of around 30,000 Roman Catholics, mostly sub-Saharan African students or migrants headed for Europe. Up to 10,000 are expected to attend a mass in …