Morocco stable following elections. From: Market Africa Mid-East | Date: November 1, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Media Contact Resources, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The political situation in Morocco garnered a fair amount of attention as far back as January 2007 when Foreign Policy (Washington) listed the country's (then) upcoming September 2007 elections as worthy of note. The well respected journal is published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The journal is known for recently developing and publishing the Failed States Index.

In its January 2007 prediction, Foreign Policy said that the country's legal Islamist political party--there's also an illegal one--would do well in the September 2007 elections, much to the ...

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