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Africafé x AD2022: L'Atlantique Sud et son importance pour le Maroc et le continent africain

December 22, 2022
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Dans cet épisode spécial d’Africafé, le représentant permanent du Maroc aux Nations unies, Omar Hilale, présente l’importance de l’Atlantique sud pour le développement du continent africain et analyse les enjeux liés à cet espace. Omar Hilale décrit aussi les efforts déployés par le Maroc pour faire de cet océan, l’Atlantique Sud, un lieu de coopération et de prospérité.

Speakers
Omar Hilale
Morocco
Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations
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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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