The Moroccan-Algerian battle for succession to the post of vice-president of the African Union (AU) Commission in February 2025: Discover the Moroccan candidate facing the Algerian
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The battle for the succession of the Chadian Moussa Faki Mahamat as President of the Commission of the African Union (AU) in February 2025 has officially been launched and, as can be expected, is currently being played out behind the scenes, particularly for the post of 1st Vice-Presidency which this year goes to North Africa.
In this context, Morocco has just presented its representative in the person of Latifa Akharbach, who will therefore have to fight hard against the Algerian candidate, to want to win the bet at stake.
Morocco is counting on Akherbach, who is not the first to come along as he has an exceptional CV that seriously puts this position at stake.
Indeed, Latifa Akherbach is a Moroccan journalist, politician, diplomat and essayist. She was notably Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in the Abbes El Fassi government between 2007 and 2012.
Route, according to Wikipedia
She holds a doctorate in information and communication sciences in 19881 from the French Press Institute (Paris II).
After obtaining a baccalaureate (mathematical sciences in Marrakech) in 1978, she continued her studies at the Higher Institute of Journalism in Rabat (1979-1983).
She worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper “Al-Maghrib” (1981-82) and the weekly newspaper “La Vie éco” (1991-1995).
Between 1993 and 2000, she was the representative in Morocco of the Euromaghrebin Network for training in communication professions (REMFOC).
Between 1992 and 1999, she was a project advisor at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and led several workshops and training sessions in communication between 1990 and 2003.
She also held the position of professor at the Higher Institute of Journalism in Rabat, which became, since 1995, the Higher Institute of Information and Communication (ISIC).
In September 2003, she was appointed by King Mohammed VI as director of ISIC. She left this position in 2007.
She is co-author of the books Women and Media and Women and Politics and has published several articles and studies on media and communication in various Moroccan newspapers in Arabic and French.
On October 15, 2007, she was appointed Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation under the Abbes El Fassi government. She left this position in 2012.
On March 9, 2013, she was appointed Moroccan ambassador to Bulgaria and Macedonia.
In 2016, she was appointed Moroccan ambassador to Tunisia.
On December 3, 2018, she was appointed president of the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication of Morocco (HACA), succeeding Amina Lamrini.
