King Hassan II

Military modernisation is on the agenda to keep officers out of politics - always a key aim for King Hassan II and now a priority for Youssoufi whose government includes the first ever civilian minister responsible for defence matters Abderrahmane Sbai...

King Hassan II suspended Rabat's membership in 1985 because the OAU hadrecognisedPolisario' sSahrawiArabDemocratic Republic as a member state the previous year...

One of African Development Bank President Omar Kabbaj's greatest supporters is we hear King Hassan II...

Algeria's still powerful former Defence Minister Khaled Nezzar and other senior officers have publicly attacked King Hassan II's government claiming that it supports the Groupe Islamique Armé...

He insists the problem can be solved only if King Hassan II and Polisario (Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro) both accept the referendum...

He has lost control of the diamond fields much of the Angolan countryside and most of his foreign friends save for Morocco's King Hassan II and Zambia's Frederick Chiluba...

Polisario supporters seem more encouraged than Rabat by US involvement; they cite Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's antipathy to King Hassan II's son and heir apparent Sidi Mohammed during his trip to Washington last year...

King Hassan II will name his new government in the New Year (probably not until the close of Ramadan at the end of January)...

Following some way behind were the biggest opposition party the Union Socialiste des Forces Populaires (USFP) which won most seats; centre-right politicians who held on to their regional power bases; and a group of moderate Islamists – who accept King Hassan II's dominant role in the kingdom but argue he should oversee a return to core values including Sharia law – who for the first time enter parliament...

The rules have been laid out by Basri who following the illness of King Hassan II in late 1995 and the politically motivated 'clean-up campaign' of early 1996 has made himself the pivotal force in local politics...