AFRICAFÉ : Khalid Chegraoui décrypte l'actualité de l'Union africaine

May 6, 2021

Africafé, l'émission de décryptage de l'actualité des organisations africaines avec des experts africains arrive enfin sur vos écrans. Pour cette première édition, le présentateur de l'émission bimensuel, Youssef Tobi, accueille Khalid Chegraoui, Senior Fellow au Policy Center for the New South et Vice-Doyen de la Faculté de Gouvernance, Sciences Économiques et Sociales de l’Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique pour parler de l'actualité de l'une des organisations les plus importantes du continent africain : l'Union africaine. Africafé revient bientôt avec de nouveaux épisodes. Restez connectés !

Speakers
Khalid Chegraoui
Senior Fellow
Khalid Chegraoui is Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and Vice Dean of Political Sciences and International Relations at the Faculty of Governance, Economic and Social Sciences of the Mohammed VI University.  He began his teaching and research career in 1992 as a Research Assistant Professor at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdallah University in Fez after earning his first doctorate in African Studies from the Mohammed V University in Rabat focusing on West Sub-Saharan Africa. He also earned a Doctorate of State in African Studies from the same University in 2002, where he focused on Contemporary West Africa, in 2003 he became Professor of History and Political Anthropology at the Institute of African Studies, Mohammed V University, consultant on African and Midd ...
Youssef Tobi
International Relations Specialist
Tobi Youssef has joined the Policy Center for the New South in 2017. He is currently working on Politics and Governance in the Maghreb Region; his areas of expertise are geopolitics, political risk and nation building. Youssef Tobi obtained a Master Degree at Sciences Po Lyon  where he wrote two thesis on “ the role of Moroccan Bank in Africa, a non-state actor in service of the Diplomacy”  and the“ Chasm between the mediatic and associative representation of refugees : a case study”.  Prior to working at the Think tank, Tobi Youssef participated in a Social Entrepreneurship Project in Beirut, Lebanon and conducted an internship in a NGO based in Marseille where he assisted refugees and helped raise funds. ...

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