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Morocco
Population: 31.9 mn.
GDP: 91.1 bn.
Debt: 19.6 bn.
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The Islamist PJD-led coalition is set for conflict with the King. Palace-appointed conservatives control the security state while former dissident Mustapha Ramid holds the justice ministry. This government is Mohamed VI's last chance to fend off revolution. 

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  • Vol 43 No 4
  •  22nd February 2002

Uncharted waters

The United Nations has issued an ambiguous legal opinion about exploration licences in the ocean off Western Sahara, and Morocco is objecting to exploration by Spain's Repsol YPF off the Canary Islands. Spanish-Moroccan relations are further soured by the...

  • Vol 43 No 3
  •  8th February 2002

A right royal putsch

King Mohammed VI's cousin Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah has taken off for the United States, claiming 'police harassment'. He is 37, and second in line of succession after the King's younger brother, Moulay Rachid, who is 31. By performing as Morocco's intel...

  • Vol 42 No 25
  •  21st December 2001

Honeymoon over

The government isn't working: palace and parties will fight for the political initiative

  • Vol 42 No 10
  •  18th May 2001

Unending endgame

Imagination and innovation are needed if a new war is to be prevented

  • Vol 41 No 10
  •  12th May 2000

Fishy business

As if the Western Sahara did not have enough tangles, an old debate about fishing rights has reemerged to weave fresh knots. Most of the fish that swarm off the 1,835 kilometres of the territory's coastline are caught by boats from Spain, Europe's biggest...

  • Vol 41 No 6
  •  17th March 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
  •  19th December 1999

Broom sweeps Basri

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

  • Vol 40 No 22
  •  5th November 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
  •  5th November 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 Min...

  • Vol 40 No 18
  •  10th September 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 Natio...

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