ABUJA- Mr Hachimi Idrissi, President of the Atlantic Federation of African Press Agencies (FAAPA) and Director-General (DG) of the Moroccan News Agency (MAP), has died at 67.
A statement by the agency said that Idrissi, died on April 8, was born on Aug. 14, 1956 in Casablanca, Morocco.
He was 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.
The late Idrissi was 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”.
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 he was re-elected in 2011.
In October 2014, he was elected President of FAAPA.
The late Idrissi has to his credit, several publications including “Billets Bleus” Moroccan chronicles 1994-2000.
He was appointed Director-General of MAP in 2011. During his era, MAP experienced a great expansion by becoming a public news pole.(NAN)
