Abdelilah Benkirane

After a period of personal trauma following the death in December of his friend and right-hand man Minister of State Abdellah Baha Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane's face is brightening once again thanks to a bullish economy and his natural bonhomie...

Since introducing a new constitution following the Arab Spring protests in March 2011 M6 has promoted the emergence of a coalition government led by Islamist Abdellilah Benkirane and his Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD) which is inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Turkish model...

Hopes in early 2012 that the Moroccan coalition government led by Abdelilah Benkirane's Parti de la Justice et du Développement (PJD) might engineer a rapprochement with Algiers have come to nothing (AC Vol 53 No 6 The neighbours start talking)...

A new coalition was forced on Islamist Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane after the withdrawal from government of the modernising Istiqlal party now led by the pugnacious union leader and Mayor of Fez Abdel Hamid Chabat...

Morocco looks equally divided with King Mohamed VI offering discreet support for the new regime while Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane of the Islamist Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD) is critical...

During his ten-day trip Hoàng met Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane and Foreign Minister Saad Dine El Otmani in Rabat before travelling to Dar es Salaam to see Tanzania's Vice-President Mohamed Gharib Bilal...

’ He is a technocrat operating under the conservative Istiqlal party’s colours in Abdelilah Benkirane’s Islamist-led government...

Yet Abdelilah Benkirane of the Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD) keeps smiling...

Several high-level diplomatic meetings initiated by Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane in recent weeks have raised hopes that Algeria and Morocco might finally reopen their border closed since 1994...

Yet the prominence of MB associates in the governments of Morocco’s Abdelillah Benkirane and Tunisia’s Hamadi Jebali may tempt them into a leadership role (AC Vol 52 No 25 Brothers unbound)...