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- Vol 41 No 10
- 12/05/2000
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
- 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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