Vol 41 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
There have been bizarre reports of Saudi Arabia trying to buy off both Algiers and Polisario presumably to shore up a fellow Arab monarchy (of Mohammed VI)...
King Mohammed VI affirmed his new authority with the summary dismissal of Driss Basri the late King's veteran Minister of State for the Interior...
As we go to press we hear quiet discussions are afoot about a visit to the disputed territory by Mohammed VI...
In the latest slight to his father's old guard King Mohammed VI has unbanned the country's leading satirist Ahmed Sanoussi better known as 'Bziz' for buzzing at the authorities...
Hassan's heir Mohammed VI is not expected to become as close to Eyadéma (or fellow strongman Jonas Savimbi of Angola) as his father was...
King Mohammed VI's government was 'astonished' by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's claim that Rabat was training Islamists who on 15 August massacred 29 people in Algeria's border area of Beni Ounif Bechar...
A week after his father's sudden death from a heart attack on 23 July King Mohammed VI went to Fez to lead Friday prayers...
Surrounded by the Makhzen (the Palace-run political establishment) Mohammed VI took over as Al Amir al Mouminin (Commander of the Faithful) Morocco's spiritual head...
Whether Rabat cooperates with the United Nations' planned referendum on Western Sahara next July will be a key test of King Mohammed VI's political muscle...