Yassine Mansouri

Mansouri was born in Bejaâd, near Khouribga, on April 2, 1962. He is the son of Hajj Abderrahmane Mansouri, a religious professor and scholar from Bzou who was a student of Mokhtar Soussi, Mohamed Serghini, and Moulay Ahmed Alami before moving to Bejaâd after his retirement. Yassine Mansouri remains attached to Bejaâd and his ancestral town of Bzou, associated with the Berber Antifa tribe, visiting the cities yearly and overseeing several charitable initiatives in the region. He was a classmate of Mohammed VI at the Royal College in Rabat. He received a law degree and two graduate degrees in public law in 1983 from Mohammed V University. == Career ==

Yassine Mansouri began his career in the mid-1980s at the Ministry of Information and later the Ministry of the Interior during an internship at Driss Basri's cabinet. In 1999, following violent pro-independence riots in Laâyoune, King Mohammed VI ordered a report on the causes behind the riots from Mansouri and Hamidou Laânigri. In the aftermath of this cabinet shuffle, Mansouri was named director of Maghreb Arabe Presse and Laânigri was named head of the Directorate for Territorial Surveillance. ==Personal life==

Mansouri is married and has 4 children. He is described as a "tireless worker" who is "extremely reserved and discreet, even shy" and as a pious man who often did Umrah and who is "attached to his origins". == Decorations ==

• Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Romania (2023) ==See also==