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	Moktar Ould Daddah Information
		Moktar Ould Daddah (Arabic: مختار ولد داده; December 25, 1924 - October 14, 2003) was the President of Mauritania from 1960, when his country gained its independence from France, to 1978, when he was deposed in a military coup d'etat.
		Daddah was born to a princely family in Boutilimit, Mauritania.
		Daddah was named Acting President of the new republic, and was confirmed in office in the first post-independence election in August 1961.
	www.bookrags.com /Moktar_Ould_Daddah (625 words)

	Blog of Death: Moktar Ould Daddah
		Moktar Ould Daddah, the founding father of Mauritania, died on Oct. 14.
		Daddah became president of the West African nation once it gained its independence from France in 1960.
		Daddah ruled until 1978 when he was ousted from power by a military junta.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000421.html (185 words)

	A short history of Mauritania
		Moktar Ould Daddah of the Union Progressive Mauritanien (Mauritian Progressive Union, UPM) becomes the first prime minister.
		Ould Daddah becomes president and under his rule Mauritania becomes in 1964 a one-party state around Daddah's Partie des Personnes de Mauritanie (Mauritanian People's Party, PPM).
		His regime is ousted after a second coup in 1984, when Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya becomes dictator as chairman of a committee of military officers.
	www.electionworld.org /history/mauritania.htm (327 words)

	State Information Service-Publications
		Ould Daddah used PMU as a platform for struggle against the French, who, since 1920, had ruled his country from Senegal.
		Moktar Ould Daddah's first aim was national unity, a delicate problem in a country divided between a minority agricultural south and a largely nomadic Moorish center and north.
		Ould Daddah was placed under house arrest, but was freed in August 1979 and allowed to travel to France.
	www.sis.gov.eg /En/Publications/349/350/356/394/395.htm (582 words)

	Mauritania - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The discovery of oil in 2001 in the offshore Chinguetti deposit will be a test for the current government since, according to human rights activists, it can be a blessing for one of the poorest countries in the world as well as a curse bringing corruption and violence to the country.
		After independence, President Moktar Ould Daddah, originally installed by the French, formalized Mauritania into a one-party state in 1964 with a new constitution, which set up an authoritarian presidential regime.
		Daddah was ousted in a bloodless coup on July 10, 1978.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Mauritania (2464 words)

	Biography of Moktar Ould Daddah - Biographyies List - BiograhpyFinder.com
		Moktar Ould Daddah (December 25, 1924 - October 14, 2003) was the President of Mauritania from 1960, when his country gained its independence from France, to 1978, when he was deposed in a military coup d'etat.
		In 1977, Nouakchott was attacked by the Polisario Front, and Daddah was forced to appoint a military officer to head the ministry of defence.
		Mustafa Ould Salek ousted Daddah in a military coup.
	www.biographyfinder.com /s903-Moktar-Ould.html (565 words)

	Mauritania - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		That same year Moktar Ould Daddah was elected its first president; he was re-elected in 1966, 1971, and 1976.
		Afia Ould Mohamed Khouna returned to office as prime minister in November 1998, after his successor was dismissed by President Taya.
		In April their leader, Ahmed Ould Daddah, was arrested, but was released without charges after five days.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761571203___19/Mauritania.html (863 words)

	Mauritania - MSN Encarta
		The Islamic Republic of Mauritania was proclaimed on November 28, 1958, under the constitution of the Fifth French Republic, and on November 28, 1960, it became fully independent.
		In July 1978, President Daddah was ousted in a coup led by Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Ould Salek.
		Following the legislative elections Mohamed Lemine Ould Guig was appointed prime minister, and the outgoing premier Afia Ould Mohamed Khouna was given a portfolio in the new administration.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571203_7/Mauritania.html (863 words)

	GoogObits
		Ould Daddah became Mauritania's first president in 1961 and was re-elected three times, governing 17 years before being ousted in a coup in 1978.
		Ould Daddah campaigned for a "yes" vote on preserving some ties with France in a referendum in 1958, two years before independence.
		Ould Daddah's government had to call on the French military to intervene against Polisario.
	blogs.salon.com /0001604/2003/10/16.html (508 words)

	Middle East Online
		Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah, a former head of state, and six close associates were briefly detained Thursday on the eve of the poll.
		Ould Haidallah was president from 1980 to 1984, after a military junta had overthrown Moktar Ould Daddah, the father of Mauritanian independence, in 1978.
		A fourth candidate is Ahmed Ould Daddah, half-brother to the country's first president, who presided over independence in 1960 and died in exile in Paris last month.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=7707 (460 words)

	Moktar Ould Daddah
		Ould Daddah became the first president of independent Mauritania.
		In many cases public participation was however expressed through strikes and demonstrations, and in the late 1960's the country was on the verge of civil war.
		Ould Daddah's rise to early success came from his abilities to make different opposition parties work together, for instance by admitting his earlier opponents into his late 1950's administration.
	i-cias.com /e.o/ould_daddah.htm (483 words)

	Five cleared to challenge Ould Taya for the presidency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ould Haidalla announced plans to stand against Ould Taya for the leadership of this desert nation of 2.5 million people in August.
		Ould Haidalla is likely to see some of his potential support drain away to Ahmed Ould Daddah, a half-brother of Mauritania's first president, Moktar Ould Daddah, who ruled this former French colony as a one-party state from independence in 1960 until his overthrow by a coup in 1978.
		Ahmed Ould Daddah, was officially credited with a third of the vote, when he stood against Ould Taya in 1992.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=37206 (722 words)

	Moktar Ould Daddah
		Ould Daddah became the first president of independent Mauritania.
		In many cases public participation was however expressed through strikes and demonstrations, and in the late 1960's the country was on the verge of civil war.
		Ould Daddah's rise to early success came from his abilities to make different opposition parties work together, for instance by admitting his earlier opponents into his late 1950's administration.
	www.lexicorient.com /e.o/ould_daddah.htm (483 words)

	Reporters sans frontières - Mauritania annual Report 2002
		The year 2001 was marked by two events: the return in July of former state president Moktar Ould Daddah, ousted in a coup d’état in 1978, and the October legislative elections which took place in relative transparency.
		The journalist was suspected of having information on the identity of authors of graffiti hostile to the authorities and of acts of sabotage committed during the president’s visit.
		Mohammed Lemine Ould Bah, correspondent for RFI and RMC Moyen-Orient, was summoned on 5 April 2001 by the minister of communications and relations with parliament, Rachid Ould Saleh, shortly after the broadcast on RFI of a programme on the visit of Mauritanian president Maawiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya to Senegal.
	www.rsf.org /article.php3?id_article=1449 (644 words)

	Mauritania - Arab Relationship and World Affaires
		Moktar Ould Daddah, leader of the Parti du regroupement mauritanien (PRM) and Prime Minister since June 1959 became Head of State at independence, and was elected President in August 1961.
		After independence all parties merged with the PRM to form the Parti du peuple mauritanien (PPM), with Ould Daddah as Secretary-General, and Mauritania became a one-party state in 1964.
		Maouya Ould Sidi Ahmed Taya became army chief of staff in 1980, and in 1981 he became prime minister.
	hometown.aol.com /arabinfo7/maurihis.htm (919 words)

	Mauritania - The Road to Independence and the Quest for National Unity
		Daddah was educated in France and, having just returned to Mauritania to form the government, had not been involved in the rivalries and struggle for power.
		At the Congress of Aleg in May 1958, the Mauritanian Regroupment Party was formed in a merger of the Mauritanian Progressive Union, elements of the Mauritanian Entente that had expelled Babana, and the Gorgol Democratic Bloc.
		This party was headed by Daddah as secretary general and Sidi el Moktar as president.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-8485.html (736 words)

	SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT DEATH OF MOKTAR OULD DADDAH, FIRST PRESIDENT OF MAURITANIA
		SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT DEATH OF MOKTAR OULD DADDAH, FIRST PRESIDENT OF MAURITANIA
		SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT DEATH OF MOKTAR OULD DADDAH,
		The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the death of Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania:
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2003/sgsm8947.doc.htm (42 words)

	Elections in Mauritania
		From that date until his election as President in August 1961, Prime Minister Moktar Ould Daddah was the country's acting Head of State.
		Moktar Ould Daddah, candidate of the Mauritanian Regroupment Party (PRM), was elected President unopposed.
		Results based on the first figure (666,886 valid votes) are as follows: Ould Taya (67.02%), Ould Haidalla (18.67%), Ould Daddah (6.85%), Ould Boulkheir (4.98%), Ould Jeid (1.49%), and Jeddane (0.46%).
	africanelections.tripod.com /mr.html (464 words)

	afrol News - Mauritanian opposition candidate arrested before election
		Misanet / IRIN, 6 November - Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla, the main opposition challenger to Mauritanian President Maaouiya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya, was arrested on the eve of Friday's presidential election, eyewitnesses and officials of Mr Ould Haidalla's election campaign officials said.
		The arrest of Mr Ould Haidalla and four of his close associates followed government allegations on Wednesday that the former head of state was plotting a coup against President Ould Taya, who has ruled this desert state of 2.5 million people with an iron hand for the past 19 years.
		Their arrest followed a police raid on Mr Ould Haidalla's house in the capital, Nouakchott, on Monday and the arrest of two of the presidential candidate's sons the next day.
	www.afrol.com /articles/10614 (858 words)

	AfricaFiles \| Mauritania: Police raid leading opposition candidate's home
		Police raided the house of Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah on Monday, reportedly acting on a tip-off that weapons were being stored there and that Ould Haidallah and his supporters were planning to sabotage Friday’s vote.
		Ould Haidallah, 72, is a former army colonel, who was president from 1980 until 1984.
		Ould Taya, 62, has ruled Mauritania with an iron hand, changing his political allegiance from Saddam Hussein's Baghdad to George Bush's Washington as time went on.
	www.africafiles.org /article.asp?ID=3289 (545 words)

	Mauritania History
		During the first nine years of independence the regime of Moktar Ould Daddah was preoccupied with expansionist designs by Morocco whose military strength constituted a perpetual threat to Mauritania's territorial integrity.
		Politically from independence until the overthrow of the Daddah regime in 1978 the leadership concentrated on consolidating the power of the ruling Mauritanian People's Party and moving toward a one-party state.
		The inability of the Daddah regime to extricate Mauritania from its economic problems and the war led to a military coup d'état in July 1978.
	www.world66.com /africa/mauritania/history (1195 words)

	ould - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Daddah, Moktar Ould (1924-2003), first president of Mauritania (1961-1978).
		I met wid Napper Tandy, and he took me by the hand,
		And he said, 'How's poor ould Ireland, and how does she stand?'
	ca.encarta.msn.com /ould.html (66 words)

	IRIN-West Africa Update 362 for 1998.12.17
		Mauritania's leading opposition political figure, Ahmed Ould Daddah, and two of his party militants were arrested on Wednesday and will be charged with tarnishing the country's image by saying the government had agreed to accept Israeli nuclear waste, AFP said quoting an official source.
		The source said that Daddah, president of l'Union des forces democratique (UFD); former minister Mohameden Ould Babah and Mohameden ould Icheddou, a lawyer, were arrested following a public rally in which Daddah told 10,000 people that the government had agreed to accept nuclear waste from Israel's Dimona facility.
		Daddah, the brother of Mauritania's first president Moktar Ould Daddah, also told the rally that his party had discovered that just US $200,000 of $2.0 billion aid received since 1985 could be accounted for.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Newsletters/irinw362.html (1628 words)

	World Homes Network - Mauritania
		Moktar Ould Daddah, leader of the Mauritanian People's Party (PPM), became president 1961.
		The conflict weakened Mauritania's economy, and in 1978 President Daddah was deposed in a bloodless coup led by Col Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla.
		In Dec 1984, while Col Haidalla was attending a Franco-African summit meeting in Burundi, Col Moaouia Ould Sidi Muhammad Taya, a former prime minister, led a bloodless coup to overthrow him.
	www.world-homes.net /atlas/Africa/nafrica/mauritan.htm (481 words)

	Mauritania Government Information
		On August 3, 2005, President Maaouiya ould Sid’Ahmed Taya was deposed in a bloodless coup.
		Military commanders, led by Colonel Ely Ould Mohammed Fal, seized power while President Taya was attending the funeral of Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd.
		The country's first president, Moktar ould Daddah, served from independence until ousted in a bloodless coup on July 10, 1978.
	www.traveldocs.com /mr/govern.htm (749 words)

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