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El Himma returns but Mohammed VI is increasingly absent

The royal palace has just carried out a discreet public relations operation in an effort to put an end to rumours about the state of health of… the king's political adviser Fouad Ali El Himma which have been doing the [...] (688 words)

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How King Mohammed VI rules Morocco from Paris

MP Chaouki buys AD Capital from Emirati owner EIIC

Egypt's Arab Contractors could lose motorway project

Mohammed VI still without a diplomatic head in Tel Aviv

Salwa Akhannouch raises Aksal capital for two new mall builds

Mohammed VI's sisters put their money into Casablanca's future Hilton hotel

PAM deputy El Joumani goes it alone to save his Kénitra bus concession

Ex-Akhannouch and Boutgueray finance exec Tibari Friha goes solo

Billboard queen Nabila Freidji mends her nets in Dakhla

El Mechrek's RNI mayor Yassir Kandil sets up new irrigation company

Youssef Bouabid to fill up tanks with Appollo Petroleum

Chakib Benmoussa is shadow ambassador

Chakib Benmoussa has his lease extended in Paris

Akhannouch has taken a stake in Institut Amadeus

Akhannouch raids kiosks to get TelQuel off the streets

Court of Accounts targets Aziz Akhannouch and Mohcine Jazouli

Saad Eddine El Othmani plans to appoint a slimmed down government

Le Drian takes time out to inaugurate Touraya Bouabid's school

Princess Lalla Soukaina divorces Mehdi Regragui in secret

IFED to industrialise argan oil production

Zalar Holding buys up Jamal Ait Manna's citrus fruit business

Hassan Agzenai threatens to stop fuel supplies

Mohammed VI takes back control of his kingdom

"M6" is king by correspondence only

Mohammed VI's holidays go on… and on

Al Hoceima crisis divides Mohammed VI's security chiefs

Why and how "M6" took back control of COP22

Consulting firms hunt for El Dorado in the regions

Why king seeks to mend PJD-Istiqlal feud

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