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Satellite view of Morocco's Atlantic coast around Casablanca on 19 February 2024: farmland and hills parched by drought.
Africa's warming, one stripe per year. Average land temperature across Africa, 1901–2025. Each stripe is one year: blue cooler, red warmer than average. 2024 was the warmest year, +1.66 °C above the 20th-century average.
Data: NOAA NCEI. Visualisation after Ed Hawkins' warming stripes.
From theory to implementation
From scientific knowledge to diplomatic action, for a more resilient, more influential and more united Africa.
The same area around Casablanca, one year apart. Drought was already present in 2023, but crops were still green; by February 2024 fields and hills had turned brown, and the country's reservoirs had fallen from 32% to 25% of capacity.
Images: NASA Earth Observatory (MODIS, Aqua and Terra satellites)
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Policy Brief 12/26February 2026Khalid R. Temsamani
The multiplication of systemic crises worldwide — environmental, health, energy or global-security — calls for a profound evolution in diplomatic action. In this context, structured integration of scientific knowledge into international relations becomes a determining condition for crafting effective and legitimate collective responses. This Policy Brief examines the capacity of Moroccan universities to embed themselves durably in this dynamic — beyond their traditional academic function — to assume an active role in producing expertise that can serve Morocco's external action.
