King Mohammed VI is Africa's richest monarch and the man quietly building Morocco into a global industrial power
Billionaires Africa | 18.05.2026 19:00
He does not give interviews. He rarely appears at business forums. His palace press office does not issue statements about earnings or portfolio performance. And yet King Mohammed VI of Morocco is, by most serious estimates, the wealthiest monarch on the African continent, controlling a commercial empire that touches nearly every major sector of the Moroccan economy and extends across dozens of countries beyond it.