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King Mohammed VI (M6)

Date of Birth: 21/8/1963
Place of Birth: Rabat, Morocco


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Headaches for Benkirane

Three years into the new constitution King Mohammed VI (aka ‘M6') lacks the direct control over day-to-day politics and the economy that his father the late King Hassan II exerted...


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Keïta’s test of words and deeds

Other leaders there to endorse Keïta included Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan and Ghana's John Dramani Mahama alongside Tunisia's Interim President Moncef Marzouki and King Mohamed VI of Morocco who has been increasing his engagement with West Africa...


Who's backing the new regime?

Morocco looks equally divided with King Mohamed VI offering discreet support for the new regime while Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane of the Islamist Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD) is critical...


The campaign stretches out

King Mohammed VI’s government has been trying to convince Polisario to accept its offer of autonomy within the borders of Morocco...


Keep smiling

Communication Minister Mustapha el Khalfi’s revised regulations for broadcasters led King Mohammed VI to call in Benkirane Khalfi and Minister of State Abdellah Baha on 22 April to remind them that the constitution guarantees multilingualism and political pluralism...


The neighbours start talking

King Mohammed VI has appointed former Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi-Fihri an enormously experienced ‘safe pair of hands’ as one of his formal advisors...


Brothers unbound

King Mohammed VI has permitted a government led by the 'moderate Islamist' Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD AC Vol 52 No 13) which like the Hizb Ennahda (Renaissance Party) of Tunisia also now in government claims to admire Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP Justice and Development Party) in Turkey...


Gadaffi falls, revolution rises

King Mohammed VI has worked hard to present his government as the exception to the rule of corrupt autocracies in North Africa...

These are early elections: the poll was not due until September 2012 but as well as meeting the demands of the 20 February reform movement an early vote will allow Mohammed VI to replace the weak Istiqlal party leader Abbas el Fassi as Prime Minister...


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