The Moroccan Files

Is Paris - Dakar coming home to Morocco? Could the legendary rally return to Morocco in 2027 amid tensions in the Middle East? For one Belgian boy who grew up watching the race, the possibility is more than a sporting headline. There are moments when a news announcement takes you straight back to another time. For me, it was the Paris–Dakar Rally. I was thirteen, a Belgian boy sitting with my family after our New Year’s brunch. The television was on, and there it was: enormou