Latifa Akherbach
Moroccan politician and journalist
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Latifa Akherbach (Berber languages: ⵍⴰⵟⵉⴼⴰ ⴰⵅⵔⴱⴰⵛ, Arabic: لطيفة أخرباش – born 1960 in Tetouan) is a Moroccan politician and journalist. Between 2007 and 2012, she was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Abbas El Fassi.[1][2][3]
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(as Delegate-Minister)
Latifa Akherbach | |
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| President of the HACA | |
| Assumed office 3 December 2018 | |
| Monarch | Mohammed VI of Morocco |
| Preceded by | Amina Lemrini El Ouahabi |
| Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation | |
| In office 19 September 2007 – 3 January 2012 | |
| Prime Minister | Abbas El Fassi |
| Preceded by | Taieb Fassi Fihri (as Delegate-Minister) |
| Succeeded by | Youssef Amrani (as Delegate-Minister) |
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| Born | 1960 (age 65–66) |
| Party | Independent |
| Occupation | Politician, journalist |
Latifa Akherbach started her career in 1981 as a journalist in the daily "Al Maghrib" and "La Vie Eco" magazine. Sometime in the late 1990s she taught at the "Higher Institute of Journalism of Rabat" (French: Institut Supérieur de Journalisme de Rabat) and in 2003, she was appointed by King Mohammed VI as the head the "Higher Institute of Information and Communication" (French: l'Institut Supérieur de l'Information et de la Communication ISIC), then in 2007 as co-CEO of the SNRT (société nationale de radio-diffusion), heading the Moroccan state radio.[3]
Akherbach co-authored two books in French about women rights; "Women and Media" (Femmes et médias) and "Women and Politics" (Femmes et politique).[2]
