The President of FAAPA,  Director General of the Moroccan News 

Agency (MAP), Mr. Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, died on Saturday April 8, 

2023 in Rabat, at the age of 67, following a long illness.

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. In October 2014, he was elected President of 

FAAPA (Atlantic Federation of African Press Agencies).

The late Khalil Hachimi Idrissi has to his credit several publications 

including “Billets Bleus” Moroccan chronicles 1994-2000. In 2011, he was 

appointed Director General of MAP. During Khalil Hachimi’s era, the 

Moroccan News Agency has experienced a great expansion by becoming a 

public news pole.