President Bouteflika a former foreign minister and skilled networker has ensured a high turnout at the summit including his neighbour and rival Morocco's King Mohammed VI as well as Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak who is not a huge Bouteflika fan...
Only King Mohammed VI of Morocco a traditional friend of the Gnassingbé clan said his country would recognise the new President...
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- NORTH AFRICA
There is increasing criticism of King Mohammed VI's failure to deliver on promises of higher living standards...
Mbeki had warned King Mohammed VI of the move in August in a private letter not circulated even to senior Moroccan officials...
Dakar has close diplomatic and business relations with Morocco whose King Mohammed VI was due to visit on 25 June and would like to emulate Morocco's success at exporting business and security know-how...
Both the USAand France back King Mohammed VI and dislike the idea of an independent Saharan Arab Democratic Republic...
Mohammed VI is lobbying too with a mid-Junevisit to Benin Cameroon Gabon Niger and Senegal...
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- NORTH AFRICA
Polisario's diplomatic progress last summer (AC Vol 44 No 18) puts King Mohammed VI under pressure at home...
King Mohammed VI has woken up to the realisation that Morocco's campaign to impose its sovereignty over Western Sahara has entered a dangerous new phase...
While King Mohammed VI does not seem to have the same feel for sub-Saharan politics and global power games as his father five years after King Hassan II's death Morocco remains a player for some of his old allies...
This comes three and a half years after King Mohammed VI made his single most important political decision to date to sack Driss Basri his father's coldly efficient Interior Minister...