- Vol 40 No 22
- 5th November 1999
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
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
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
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
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...