Morocco

Morocco

Population: 32.5 mn.
GDP: 97.2 bn.
Debt: 25.4 bn.
Overview:

King Mohammed VI and his Islamist Premier Abdelilah Benkirane must boost jobs and living conditions, while maintaining the pace of reform. The Mouvement du 20 février and the unrecognised Islamist Al Adl wal Ihsane are weaker but economic hardship could prompt more protest.

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  • 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...

  • Vol 40 No 16
  •  6th August 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
  •  6th August 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 in 19...

  • Vol 39 No 23
  •  20th November 1998

Twin peaks

Contract-chasing companies, local politicians and many of Casablanca’s four million or so residents will focus, on 21-28 November, on the tenth anniversary of the city’s twinning with Bordeaux. Alain Juppé, once Prime Minister of France, now Mayor of Bord...

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