US first lady winds up visit to Morocco

U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, left Fez on Friday after a two-day visit to Morocco during which she dedicated a surgery ward at the maternity hospital in Fez (central Morocco) and moderated a roundtable on civil society.

The spouse of President Bill Clinton, who arrived Thursday in Morocco accompanied by her daughter Chelsea, chaired on Friday the graduation ceremony at the Al-Akhawayne University of Ifrane in the Medium Atlas mountain.

The university, conceived on the Anglo-Saxon educational pattern, awarded the US first lady a honorary degree.

In her address made at the roundtable on civil society, Hillary Clinton praised the moves made by Moroccan NGOs in favor of local community and called the Moroccan civil society to see to the schooling of girls and boys, saying that education is the best investment to usher in a genuine socioeconomic development process.