King Mohammed VI (M6)

End of the empty chair Despite the kingdom's militant refusal to recognise the Polisario Front King Mohammed VI of Morocco sat across the table from Polisario representatives in Abidjan at the African-European summit...

Chabat refused to deal with the PJD which leads the coalition government and most of his 'secular' party rivals – led by current favourite of King Mohammed VI ('M6') multi-millionaire businessman Agriculture Minister and Rassemblement national des indépendants leader Aziz Akhannouch (AC Vol 58 No 2 Benkirane's 'bras de fer')...

Nor pointedly did Morocco's King Mohammed VI whose application to join Ecowas was formally accepted at the summit...

Rebellion is stirring once more in the northern Rif region regardless of King Mohammed VI's efforts to pacify the area with big infrastructural investment such as the Tanger-Med container port and a new high-speed train...

Such issues still count in North Africa's cold war; during French election week Morocco's King Mohammed VI paid one of his regular 'private visits' to Paris where he was very publicly filmed dining with the outgoing President François Hollande and together visiting an exhibition...

For now King Mohammed VI's much anticipated move to replace Abdelilah Benkirane as Prime Minister seems to have ended a deep political crisis that lasted nearly six months...

King Mohammed VI who has led the diplomatic initiatives in Africa ordered the withdrawal to emphasise that he wanted to avoid confrontation...

As fears mount that the Saharawi liberation movement could return to armed conflict he has been in touch with Moroccan King Mohammed VI...

He thanked Angola Egypt and Senegal for thwarting UN Security Council moves towards sanctions and an arms embargo and praised the recent visit by Moroccan King Mohammed VI who signed an agreement to help finance a new capital at Ramciel where the three regions of Equatoria Bahr el Ghazal and Upper Nile meet (AC Vol 54 No 7 After they open the taps)...

Mohammed VI visited President Muhammadu Buhari in December to try and win his support...