Driss Basri is a Moroccan politician. Basri was born in Settat in 1938. He began his career as a police officer in Rabat and in 1974 he was appointed as secretary of state for interior affairs. In 1979, Driss Basri was promoted to the post of interior minister in the government of Ahmed Osman, a post he held in all successive governments until [1999]. He later held the post of minister of communication as well. He won the confidence of King Hassan II, and in his term, …

Abderrahmane Youssoufi (born March 8, 1924) is a Moroccan politician who served as the Prime Minister of Morocco from 1998 to 2002.

Dr. Abdellatif Filali was a Moroccan politician and diplomat under King Hassan II. Filali was born in Fes, Morocco. He served as Prime Minister of Morocco from 25 May 1994 to 4 February 1998. He also served as foreign minister of Morocco from 1985 to 1999. He is the father of Fouad Filali, former husband of Lalla Meryem, daughter of late Hassan II and elder sister of Mohammad VI.

His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco, also Prince Moulay Rachid ben al-Hassan was born on June 20, 1970 in Rabat as the youngest child of late King Hassan II. He is a doctor in international politics and diplomat.

Ahmed Dlimi was a Moroccan General (b. ? - d. 22 January1983) under the rule of Hassan II. After General Mohamed Oufkir's 1972 assassination, he became Hassan II's second-hand man. He was nominated General during the Green March in 1975, and took charge of the Moroccan Armed Forces in the Southern Zone, where the military were fighting the Polisario Front. Ahmed Dlimi was also a member of the royal Military Council and in charge of the Army's security service abroad.

Jonas Malheiro Savimbi was a rebel leader in Angola who founded the UNITA movement in 1966, and ultimately proved a central figure in 20th century Cold War politics. With support from the governments of the United States, China, South Africa, Israel, several African leaders (Félix Houphouët-Boigny of Côte d'Ivoire, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, King Hassan II of Morocco and Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia), and foreign mercenaries from Portugal, Israel, South Africa, …

Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco is first daughter and eldest child of the late King Hassan II of Morocco and his wife Lalla Latifa Hammou. After she obtained her Baccalaureat in 1981, Princess Lalla Meryem was appointed by her father as the President of Social Works of the Royal Army Forces. In 1984, she married Fouad Filali, the son of former Foreign Affairs Minister Abdellatif Filali. They had two children: a daughter, Lalla Soukaïna Filali (1986-) and a son, …

Princess Lalla Hasna of Morocco (born November 19, 1967) is the youngest daughter of the late King Hassan II and his wife, Lalla Latifa Hammou. She is sister to the current king, Mohammed VI and Prince Moulay Rachid. Since her childhood, Princess Hasna has been interested in social and cultural activities, with special emphasis to environmental issues in Morocco.

Abdesslam Yassine is the charismatic leader of Moroccan Islamist organisation Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane, translatable as Justice and Good Deeds or Justice and Charity. Prior to his politicisation Yassine was a teacher and then schools inspector for the Ministry of Education, as well as a member of one of the most famous Moroccan Sufi brotherhoods. Yassine reportedly fell out with the leadership of the brotherhood over its refusal to engage more directly in political matters, …

Mahi Binebine is a Morrocan painter and novellist born in Marrakech in 1959. Binebine has written six novels which have been translated into various languages. In 1980 Mahi Binebine went to Paris and studied mathematics, in which he was a teacher for eight years. After that he devoted himself to writing and painting. He emigrated to New York and lived there from 1994 to 1999. Some of his paintings form part of the Guggenheim collection. He returned to Marrakesh in 2002.

King Hassan II was King of Morocco from 1961 until he passed away in 1999. He was the eldest son of Mohammed V, Sultan, then King of Morocco and his wife Lalla Abla bint Tahar, whom he married in 1926.

Aboubakr Jamai is a Moroccan newspaper publisher. Aboubakr Jamai is the publisher of Morocco's weekly newspaper "Le Journal Hebdomadaire" and its sister publication, "Assahifa al-Ousbouiya". Since they were founded in the late 1990s under the names "Le Journal" and "Assahifa", the papers have staked out new terrain in Moroccan journalism through investigative reporting on government corruption, corporate impropriety, and taboo political topics.