From the mountains of Tinghir to the corridors of international NGOs, Mohamed Ahammam, 54, has forged a path that nothing seemed to predestine. Between Morocco, Africa and the United States, this development expert, now based in Washington, DC, has never broken with his Berber roots. And yet, behind an international career emerges the portrait of a Moroccan on the move, deeply attached to his native village and to passing on his identity.
Held under the banner of integration and focused on water-related challenges, the celebration of Africa Day in Rabat was marked by an address from Morocco’s foreign minister, Nasser Bourita, who recalled that on the continent and within the African Union, the kingdom was «at home».