Deep discomfort in and out of the Palace is abroad over a resurgence of reports about King Mohammed VI's (M6) friendship with three Moroccan-German Mixed Martial Arts fighters with controversial reputations...

Claims that King Mohammed VI was among those whose phones were hacked was dismissed by insiders who said that Director of the DGSN Abdellatif Hammouchi would have been sacked and prosecuted if that happened...

Dramatic events could unfold in Rabat where King Mohammed VI's (M6) health and enthusiasm to rule are being discussed ever more widely – at least in private given tight controls on reporting royal chat...

And King Mohammed VI (M6) also faces local opposition having signed an Abraham Accord normalisation deal with Israel in December 2020...

Rabat stayed aloof from any internal fight in Gabon despite Bongo's relations with King Mohammed VI...

On 12 September King Mohammed VI who was in Paris when the earthquake struck visited the university teaching hospital in Marrakech to give blood and console some of the survivors who had lost family members...

We hear that Morocco's King Mohammed VI whose family has had close relations with the Bongo clan has offered to mediate with Gabon's military...

And a date is still to be set for a long-planned state visit to Morocco by France's President Emmanuel Macron suggesting frostier relations with King Mohammed VI...

He might struggle to get Morocco's King Mohammed VI to agree but Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch would may be interested in discussions over fertiliser supply deals with Russian producers...