A Moroccan surfing prodigy, Lahoucine Tifert, rose to national prominence but left the team in Portugal seeking better opportunities. Now 19 and living in Spain, he trains with the Spanish Surfing Federation with dreams of becoming a world champion and lifting his family out of poverty.
Long before the creation of the Algerian state on July 5, 1962, and that of the Polisario in Libya, Tangier hosted the first meeting of the Committee of 24 outside UN headquarters in New York in May 1962. This was followed by the inclusion of the Sahara issue on the agenda of the C24 in 1963, at the initiative of the Kingdom.