Maghreb Arabe Press
Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP) is Morocco’s government-owned official news agency. It was founded on 31 May 1959 in Rabat by Mehdi Bennouna and nationalized in 1973. Its headquarters are in Rabat, and its motto is “News are sacred, comment is free.”
The agency is led by Director General Fouad Arif, appointed on 19 May 2023 after the death of Khalil Hachimi Idrissi. MAP provides news in Arabic, English, French, Spanish, and Tamazight, with international services that began with an African bulletin in 1960, a Middle East service, and an English service started on 14 October 1975.
In 2005, MAP helped co-found a national charter to improve how women are portrayed in the media, with the Ministry of Social Development, Family and Solidarity and the Ministry of Communication and Culture.
MAP runs international offices in Abidjan, Algiers, Bonn, Beirut, Cairo, Dakar, Geneva, Jeddah, Lisbon, Madrid, Mexico City, Montreal, Moscow, New Delhi, Nouakchott, Paris, Rome, Tunis, and Washington, and has a large network in Asia. It maintains national and regional offices in Agadir, Casablanca, Tangier, Dakhla, Fez, Kenitra, Laayoune, Nador, Oujda, and Settat, with correspondents in Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Ankara, Baghdad, Buenos Aires, Beijing, Caracas, Damascus, El Jadida, Essaouira, Málaga, Marseille, Mexico City, New Delhi, Ouarzazate, Pretoria, Tan-Tan, Taza, Tétouan, and Tripoli.
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