Pressured by the Cyril Ramaphosa government, South Africa’s Football Association (Safa) decided to pull out of the scheduled 2020 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations (Afcon), which will be hosted in Laayoune.
In its recent report on the human rights situation in several countries, Human Rights Watch said that Morocco «continued to selectively target, prosecute, jail and harass critics, an enforce various repressive law, notably pertaining to individual liberties» in 2019.