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...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 9 |
- VIETNAM
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...
Vol 53 No 6 |
- ALGERIA
- MOROCCO
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)...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 6 |
- MOROCCO
Under Abdelilah Benkirane who is now Prime Minister the party won control of key ministries including Foreign Affairs Justice and Communications...
Bouguerra Soltani the leader of the smallest party in the ruling Presidential Alliance the Mouvement de la société pour la paix (MSP) has been 'galvanised' by the Muslim Brotherhood's breakthrough elsewhere meeting Tunisian Ennahda's Rachid Ghannouchi when he visited Algiers in November and celebrating the victory of Abdelillah Benkirane's Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD) in Morocco...