King Hassan II

Bouteflika was Foreign Affairs Minister throughout the late Houari Boumedienne's presidency (1965-79) the period when Polisario was created and the late Moroccan King Hassan II responded with the Green March in 1975 to reclaim the territory for the kingdom after General Francisco Franco's death...

Three years into the new constitution King Mohammed VI (aka ‘M6') lacks the direct control over day-to-day politics and the economy that his father the late King Hassan II exerted...

The late King Hassan II had financial problems in the 1980s and ‘90s since when the royal fortunes have been remade making the family big business players...

Born in 1956 in Inezgane Othmani holds doctorates in medicine and psychiatry from Hassan II University of Casablanca and degrees in Islamic studies...

Like others in the inner circle El Himma graduated from the Collège Royal founded by the late King Hassan II in Rabat to educate his sons alongside brilliant young students from all over Morocco...