As they survey the country from the Makhzen (ruling establishment) King Mohammed VI (M6) and his advisors view the new year with some foreboding...

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)...

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...

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...

Germany too – a key backer of showcase renewable energy projects in Morocco – has been on the sharp end of King Mohammed VI's pique...