Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, the Director General of the MAP, passed away

After a lengthy illness, Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, the director general of the Moroccan News Agency (MAP), passed away early on Saturday morning in Rabat. He was 67 years old.

In the Rabat cemetery Achouhada, the late Khalil Hachimi will be laid to rest on Sunday following Addohr prayer.

The late Khalil Hachimi, who was born on August 14, 1956, in Casablanca, became active in media development very early. In the early 1980s, he was one of the key figures in the development of intercultural and communal communication in France, where he worked at many radio stations.

Graduate of the Department of Geography at the Université of Paris I-Pantheon-Sorbonne, he worked as a reporter, columnist, and Editor-in-Chief of the weekly publication “Maroc Hebdo international” for many years until founding “Aujourd’hui Le Maroc,” a generalist French-speaking daily, in 2000.

He served as the Grand National Press Award Jury President in 2007 before being elected, in 2008, President of the FMEJ (Moroccan Federation of Newspaper Publishers), a post he retained in 2011.

Several works, including the Moroccan chronicles “Billets Bleus” from 1994 to 2000, are credited to the late Khalil Hachimi Idrissi.

As Director General of MAP, HM King Mohammed VI appointed him in 2011.

The Moroccan News Agency under Khalil Hachimi has grown significantly by becoming a major source of public information.

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