Such issues still count in North Africa's cold war; during French election week Morocco's King Mohammed VI paid one of his regular 'private visits' to Paris where he was very publicly filmed dining with the outgoing President François Hollande and together visiting an exhibition...
For now King Mohammed VI's much anticipated move to replace Abdelilah Benkirane as Prime Minister seems to have ended a deep political crisis that lasted nearly six months...
King Mohammed VI who has led the diplomatic initiatives in Africa ordered the withdrawal to emphasise that he wanted to avoid confrontation...
As fears mount that the Saharawi liberation movement could return to armed conflict he has been in touch with Moroccan King Mohammed VI...
Vol 58 No 5 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
He thanked Angola Egypt and Senegal for thwarting UN Security Council moves towards sanctions and an arms embargo and praised the recent visit by Moroccan King Mohammed VI who signed an agreement to help finance a new capital at Ramciel where the three regions of Equatoria Bahr el Ghazal and Upper Nile meet (AC Vol 54 No 7 After they open the taps)...
Vol 58 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
Mohammed VI visited President Muhammadu Buhari in December to try and win his support...
a trial of strength) between King Mohammed VI and the PJD...
Last year King Mohammed VI 'M6' launched an energetic campaign to extend Moroccan political and economic links far beyond the kingdom's traditional francophone allies (AC Vol 57 No 22 How to win friends)...
On a swing through Rwanda and Tanzania late last month King Mohammed VI used the trip to promote his main causes: getting back into the African Union and outflanking the Western Sahara; promoting Morocco as a continental business leader and pushing the global climate agenda to which he is personally committed (AC Vol 56 No 10 Outward bound)...
These policies come mainly from the Makhzen (establishment) technocrats the most senior appointed by arch-moderniser King Mohammed VI ('M6')...
