That offers a market opportunity for African exporters particularly Morocco the world's largest phosphate fertiliser producer with 75% of phosphate reserves and its state-owned Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP) whose board is headed by King Mohammed VI...
The generals in Algiers need enemies to divert attention; and former colonial power France and King Mohammed VI's government continue to fulfil that role...
As they survey the country from the Makhzen (ruling establishment) King Mohammed VI (M6) and his advisors view the new year with some foreboding...
DISPATCHES
It may have been a calculated but low-cost snub to Egypt's Abdel Fattah el Sisi and Morocco's King Mohammed VI both close allies of defeated President Donald Trump...
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Vol 62 No 22 |
- NORTH AFRICA
In Morocco reforms by King Mohammed VI (M6) designed to divert the flood of revolution saw the MB-affiliated Parti de la Justice et du Développement (PJD) led a series of coalition governments...
The Parti de la Justice et du Développement (PJD) members of former Prime Minister Saad Eddine el Othmani's government suffered a string of policy humiliations as ministers aligned with King Mohammed VI (M6)'s ruling Makhzen (establishment) reasserted their dominance of Moroccan politics a decade after political reforms in the wake of the Arab Spring demonstrations in 2011...
When King Mohammed VI (M6) asked billionaire businessman Aziz Akhannouch to form a government their meeting on 10 September formalised the victory of secular over Islamist factions in Morocco's version of the culture wars (AC Vol 60 No 25 Activist King vs the activists)...
The 'new development model' promoted by King Mohammed VI and led by the Commission Spéciale sur le Modèle de Développement chaired by Chakib Benmoussa will finally be expected to generate some ideas (AC Vol 61 No 22 Unrest simmers over economy and Covid)...
DISPATCHES
Akhannouch is now well placed to be appointed Prime Minister by King Mohammed VI...
Vol 62 No 17 |
- ALGERIA
- MOROCCO
Lapid highlighted Morocco's potential to play a leading role in improving Israeli-Palestinian relations and delivered a letter from President Isaac Herzog inviting King Mohammed VI (M6) to visit Jerusalem...
Vol 62 No 16 |
- ALGERIA
- MOROCCO
The recent media reports suggesting Moroccan security services were using the Pegasus spyware by Israel's NSO – possibly with the financial support of the United Arab Emirates – to bug the phones of French President Emmanuel Macron and King Mohammed VI (M6) created headlines too big even for the Moroccan press to ignore...