King Mohammed VI (M6)

The state-owned Office chérifien des phosphates (OCP) whose board is headed by King Mohammed VI exports 32% of its phosphate to the EU – equivalent to over $1...

Another senior minister – one of the most respected members of the coalition government led by Prime Minister Saad Eddine el Othmani's Islamist Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD) – has been sacked by King Mohammed VI (M6) in a fit of 'colère royale' (royal anger)...

In spite of a sustained lobbying effort by King Mohammed VI the bid seems run into the sand (AC Vol 58 No 25 Courtship and crackdowns)...

King Mohammed VI (M6) has invested a huge amount of political capital – and the biggest Moroccan banks and corporations' money – in making one of Africa's most notable strategic pivots of recent years: changing his kingdom's traditional focus on Europe the Maghreb and the Arab world to seeing the future rooted in Morocco's sub-Saharan business social and political connections...

UN is alone in seeing hope in the western Sahara Algeria's unquestioned support for the Polisario Front liberation movement in the Western Sahara has increased as a result of King Mohammed VI's energetic self-promotion in sub-Saharan Africa...

Moroccans are now used to King Mohammed VI (M6) leading the kingdom's drive to become a political and economic heavyweight in Africa...

End of the empty chair Despite the kingdom's militant refusal to recognise the Polisario Front King Mohammed VI of Morocco sat across the table from Polisario representatives in Abidjan at the African-European summit...

Chabat refused to deal with the PJD which leads the coalition government and most of his 'secular' party rivals – led by current favourite of King Mohammed VI ('M6') multi-millionaire businessman Agriculture Minister and Rassemblement national des indépendants leader Aziz Akhannouch (AC Vol 58 No 2 Benkirane's 'bras de fer')...

Nor pointedly did Morocco's King Mohammed VI whose application to join Ecowas was formally accepted at the summit...

Rebellion is stirring once more in the northern Rif region regardless of King Mohammed VI's efforts to pacify the area with big infrastructural investment such as the Tanger-Med container port and a new high-speed train...