Born on March 15, 1977 in Saint-Louis, Senegal, Diop Mountaga lives between Paris and Rabat and campaigns for the rights of migrants in Morocco, especially the most vulnerable, the isolated minors.
Lawyer and specialist in children’s rights, he graduated from the University of Paris 8 in France in Law and Strategies of Humanitarian Action (emergency, health and development), devoting his work to “Rights of minor sub-Saharan migrants and refugees in Morocco”.
In 2015, after a long experience in France and Germany and in order to put into practice both his theoretical knowledge and his militant commitment, he returned to Morocco and created with migrant and Moroccan friends, also human rights activists, the Intercultural Association Kirikou.
This association, of which he is the founding president, has as its main mission to promote the development and awakening of migrant and Moroccan minors, while adopting an intercultural approach favoring dialogue and exchange between different cultures.
He is the one who created for the first time the concept and label of intercultural kirikou nursery in Morocco, which welcomes Moroccan and foreign children for free in a context of living together.
In parallel to this field work, Diop Mountaga was National Coordinator of school resilience within the Moroccan Red Crescent, a position he held for several years within this institution headed by Her Royal Highness Princess Lala Malika.
He participated in several meetings, conferences and missions, both abroad and in Morocco, particularly in the framework of the new migration policy; with associative and institutional actors concerned by the themes of migration and integration.
Crown and recognition of this dynamism, he was rapporteur in the regional retreat on migration, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in Skhirat, from October 30 to November 1, 2017. and he participated in the symposium organized by the Ministry of the Interior in Morocco in the margin of work of the National Migration Observatory.
During 2018, he finally decided to expand his actions in Senegal. He sets up the same concept of day care centers, a process that is underway in partnership with local elected officials and businesses, and consults on the same issues related to migration and development projects.
In 2020, back in France where he currently lives, he created with friends the structure kirikou France based in Paris whose main mission is the integration of African MNAs in France.
Mountaga DIOP is currently an educator for the PJJ (Youth Judicial Protection) at the Ministry of Justice.