Rabat, 08/04/2023 (MAP) - The Director General of the Moroccan News Agency (MAP), Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, died Saturday morning in Rabat, at the age of 67, following a long illness.

The late Khalil Hachimi had been buried Sunday after the prayer of Addohr in the cemetery Achouhada in Rabat.

Born on August 14, 1956 in Casablanca, the late Khalil Hachimi was very early involved in developing media and was, in the early eighties, one of the actors of the creation and development of intercultural and community communication in France where he worked in several radio stations.

A graduate of the Institute of Geography at the University of Paris I-Pantheon-Sorbonne, he was a columnist, a reporter and then Editor-in-Chief for many years of the weekly newspaper "Maroc Hebdo international" before creating, in 2000, "Aujourd'hui Le Maroc", a generalist French-speaking daily.

In 2007, he was President of the Jury of the Grand National Press Prize before being elected, in 2008, President of the FMEJ (Moroccan Federation of Newspaper Publishers), a position to which he was re-elected in 2011.

The late Khalil Hachimi Idrissi has to his credit several publications including "Billets Bleus" Moroccan chronicles 1994-2000.

In 2011, he was appointed by HM King Mohammed VI, Director General of MAP.

During the era Khalil Hachimi, the Moroccan News Agency has experienced a great expansion by becoming a public information pole.

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MAP 081551 GMT April 2023