This clearly helped to lay the foundations for a more collaborative relationship with Algiers – until it was sorely tested by an inevitable row after France shifted to a clearly more pro-Moroccan position over Western Sahara with Macron pushing the point further last month with a high-profile full state visit to Rabat as a guest of King Mohammed VI (AC Vol 65 No 23 It's the economy Macron...

On 30 July Moroccan state news agency Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP) gleefully reproduced a letter in which President Emmanuel Macron told Moroccan King Mohammed VI (M6) that ‘autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty is the framework within which this issue must be resolved' and was ‘the only basis for reaching an agreement' on the former Spanish colony...

Deep discomfort in and out of the Palace is abroad over a resurgence of reports about King Mohammed VI's (M6) friendship with three Moroccan-German Mixed Martial Arts fighters with controversial reputations...

Claims that King Mohammed VI was among those whose phones were hacked was dismissed by insiders who said that Director of the DGSN Abdellatif Hammouchi would have been sacked and prosecuted if that happened...

Dramatic events could unfold in Rabat where King Mohammed VI's (M6) health and enthusiasm to rule are being discussed ever more widely – at least in private given tight controls on reporting royal chat...

And King Mohammed VI (M6) also faces local opposition having signed an Abraham Accord normalisation deal with Israel in December 2020...

Rabat stayed aloof from any internal fight in Gabon despite Bongo's relations with King Mohammed VI...

On 12 September King Mohammed VI who was in Paris when the earthquake struck visited the university teaching hospital in Marrakech to give blood and console some of the survivors who had lost family members...