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Last year, while visiting Mali for the inauguration of its new President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (right), Morocco’s King Mohammed VI (left) agreed to the training of 500 Malian Imams using Morocco’s moderate and tolerant form of Islam to help fight the spread of extremism. Photo: MAP
Le Nouvel Observateur/AFP (June 13, 2014) — Morocco is preparing to welcome a second group of Malian imams in Rabat to ensure their training in accordance with the agreement signed last year during a visit of King Mohammed VI to Bamako.
“The first group of imams, composed of 106 Malians, will pass their second year here and we are awaiting the arrival of the second group,” said the Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs, Ahmed Toufiq.
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