Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit has been working hard for King Mohammed VI (M6) this summer reassuring voters that the general election on 23 September will feature candidates of higher moral and technical calibre with polls overseen by a media that is better regulated and increasingly sophisticated security services...

The Mohammed VI Polytechnic university which hosts Africa's most powerful supercomputer has agreed to cooperate with European supercomputing centres...

The 2019-completed sports complex adjoining Rabat's state-of-the-art stadium constructed at the request of King Mohammed VI (M6) has drawn admiration from footballers and managers across Africa...

In Morocco's case the latter has been strengthened by the establishment of the Mohammed VI Football Academy near Rabat in 2009 to identify train and educate promising young footballers since followed by regional centres expanding the player development net...

Funding from Mohammed VI and private-sector investment from major Moroccan companies has been key...

The reimagining of how Rabat's concrete brutalist Prince Moulay Abdellah Sports Complex and other stadia could bring Morocco into the 21st century and then host arguably the globe's biggest event with the 2030 World Cup owes much to the drive of King Mohammed VI (‘M6') described in parts of Morocco's increasingly compliant media as ‘le roi bâtisseur' (the builder king)...

Regional rival Morocco is basking in an Africa Cup of Nations tournament played out in glitzy new stadia and served by a big infrastructure spend that will reach its peak when the kingdom co-hosts the 2030 Fifa World Cup that King Mohammed VI (‘M6') has placed at the heart of a cannily populist development policy...

The prevailing narrative in Morocco has it that King Mohammed VI (M6) has presided over social uplift impressive new infrastructure and major progress in achieving the central policy aim of formalising the kingdom's ownership of the disputed Western Sahara...

Getting President Trump's first administration to recognise Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara as a quid pro quo for the kingdom officially recognising Israel in late 2020 was a diplomatic coup for King Mohammed VI (M6) (AC Vol 61 No 25 King reaps Saharan dividend)...