Yet his late father King Hassan II long ago planted the seeds of compromise based on a federal structure similar to Germany's but potentially giving the Sahara much autonomy...
Four months after the death of King Hassan II Basri went to the office on 9 November for a normal working session...
His regional clout in the group that included Angola's Jonas Savimbi Mobutu and Morocco's late King Hassan II has gone overtaken by the end of the Cold War and the death of two key players...
Mohammed's meet-the-people tour last month took in most of his kingdom including the troublesome cannabis-growing north which his late father Hassan II avoided for decades...
Eyadéma has lost an ally in Morocco's King Hassan II...
Morocco is more stable than Indonesia but its social compact was forged only after the late King Hassan II had staked his throne on securing sovereignty over the Sahara in the 1970s...
The mass outpouring of grief after the death of King Hassan II one of Africa's most ruthless and canniest rulers is fast being overtaken by worries about the future particularly the shaky economy...
Mohammed had accepted the Ba'ya (oath of allegiance) from his subjects immediately after Hassan II's death...
His father King Hassan II marched troops into the territory shortly after Spain pulled out in 1976 a move condemned by both the UN and the Organisation of African Unity...
Far more problematic are Bouteflika's relations with Morocco's King Hassan II...
Key to UNITA’s success has been the retraining of officers in Morocco (several hundred Moroccan soldiers are said to be helping with logistics and communications in the north-east following meetings in 1998 between Jonas Savimbi and King Hassan II) and help from Francophone sympathisers such as Togo’s Gnassingbé Eyadéma and Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compaoré with arms procurement and transshipment...
