جامعة تيفاريتي | |
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Other name | UTIFARITI |
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Type | Public |
Established | 2013 |
Rector | Jatari Hamudi [1] |
Dean | Moulay M'hamed Brahim [2] |
Location | , , |
Website |
universidadtifariti |
The University of Tifariti (UTIFARITI; Arabic: جامعة تيفاريتي, Spanish: Universidad de Tifariti) is a university in Tifariti, Western Sahara.
The University of Tifariti is the first Sahrawi university, established in 2013 under Presidential Decree 24/2012 of 23 December 2012. President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Mohamed Abdelaziz also appointed Khatari Ahmudi Abdallahi as its first president. [3]
The idea of founding a university in the Sahrawi liberated territories has existed since at least 2009, with the help of many other universities of the world, including the University of Leeds ( United Kingdom), National Autonomous University of Nicaragua ( Nicaragua), University of California, Berkeley ( United States), University of Pretoria ( South Africa), University of Santiago de Compostela ( Spain), University of Havana ( Cuba), University of Mentouri ( Algeria) and a dozen others from Africa, America and Europe. [4] [5]
Sahrawi authorities have offered free basic education to children in the Sahrawi refugee camps, enabling them to rise from one of Africa's lowest literacy levels to over 90% literacy. [6] However, prior to the university's founding, students had to travel abroad for higher education. [7]