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Morocco

Population: 30.5 million
GNI: $58000 million
Debt: $16200 million
Overview: New Premier Abass al Fassi will move cautiously on economic and political modernisation as the kingdom's Islamist opponents regroup. Pressure is growing in fresh talks with Polisario Front over Western Sahara referendum.

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  • Vol 41 No 6
  • 17/03/2000

Baker's big idea

A new drive for peace in Western Sahara is signalled by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan's choice of a new Special Envoy. Former United States Secretary of State James Baker III is a heavy hitter

  • Vol 40 No 23
  • 19/12/1999

Broom sweeps Basri

The new King sacked his security chief - and may even have a new Sahara policy

  • Vol 40 No 22
  • 05/11/1999

Desert king

Is the 'people's King' preparing an initiative that would win him huge support at home by underlining the 'Moroccaness' of Western Sahara but could seriously compromise the United Nations-led referendum process?

  • Vol 40 No 22
  • 05/11/1999

Bziz buzzes again

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. For 13 years, he'd been barred from public performances by an Interior ...

  • Vol 40 No 18
  • 10/09/1999

Self-determination

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. This quarrel also threatens July's United N...

  • Vol 40 No 16
  • 06/08/1999

Our friend, the new king

Young King Mohammed VI faces a tide of economic and social problems bequeathed by his father Hassan II

  • Vol 40 No 16
  • 06/08/1999

Desert kingdom or desert republic?

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. His father, King Hassan II, marched troops into the territory shortly after Spain pulled out i...

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