Last month's visit to Moscow by King Mohammed VI had echoes of the political manoeuvres favoured by his late father King Hassan II who liked to play both sides in the Cold War against each other to stop them from taking him for granted...
King Mohammed VI ('M6') has demanded a more active foreign policy from his diplomats and more aggressive marketing of Morocco Inc...
The effort by King Mohammed VI to extend Moroccan influence in West Africa depends in part on the country's historic Sufi ties with turuq (brotherhoods or orders) across the region...
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One possible reason is that all Moroccans must pledge bayah to King Mohammed VI himself...
The PJD made sweeping electoral gains in the wake of King Mohammed VI's 'Arab Spring' reforms in 2011 and has been building on them ever since (AC Vol 52 No 25 The King's own Islamists)...
Securing Morocco's hold over the territory remains key to maintaining King Mohammed VI's personal prestige and in the long term to the Alaouite family staying on the throne...
'If things don't change we are going to see another explosion and this time I'm not sure that he [King Mohammed VI] can handle it' a well-connected entrepreneur told Africa Confidential over Ramadan coffee...
King Mohammed VI was one of the star guests at last September's celebration of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta's accession to office in Mali and this year he returned to Bamako for a major official visit...
Neither is Morocco's King Mohammed VI (‘M6') in any mood to give up the ‘Saharan provinces'...
Three years into the new constitution King Mohammed VI (aka ‘M6') lacks the direct control over day-to-day politics and the economy that his father the late King Hassan II exerted...
