Moktar Ould Daddah (Arabic: مختار ولد داداه, romanized: Mukhtār Wald Dāddāh; December 25, 1924 – October 14, 2003) was a Mauritanian politician who led...

Ould Daddah may refer to one of two Mauritanian political figures: Moktar Ould Daddah (1924–2003), President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania from...

Ahmed Ould Daddah (Arabic: أحمد ولد داداه, born 7 August 1942) is a Mauritanian economist and a politician. He is a half-brother of Moktar Ould Daddah, the...

years after independence, Mauritania was a one-party state under Moktar Ould Daddah. This was followed by decades of military rule. The first fully democratic...

national flag was introduced under the instructions of President Moktar Ould Daddah and the constitution of 22 March 1959 and was officially adopted on...

at the French war academy. In 1978, the Mauritanian Army overthrew Moktar Ould Daddah, the first President of Mauritania, in an attempt to forestall government...

Mohamed Salek was appointed Army Commander by longtime President Moktar Ould Daddah in February 1978, as the country faced dire economic crisis and was...

Development in September 1971 by the first post-independence president, Moktar Ould Daddah. During the 1970s he served in a series of positions in the government...

on 20 August 1961 to elect the President for the next five years. Moktar Ould Daddah, who had been acting head of state since independence from France...

Mauritanian politician Mohamed Ould Ghazouani (born 1956) Mohamed Salem Ould Béchir, Mauritanian politician Moktar Ould Daddah (1924–2003), Former Mauritanian...

(CMRN), which under the leadership of Mustafa Ould Salek, overthrew on July 10, 1978, President Moktar Ould Daddah in a military coup due to the conflict in...

was a major reason for the Mauritanian armed forces to overthrow Moktar Ould Daddah, the President of Mauritania in 1979 and an immediate cease-fire with...

party of Mauritania from 1961 to 1978. It was headed by President Moktar Ould Daddah. Daddah founded the party shortly after Mauritania's independence from...

the Polisario forces aimed to overthrow the regime of President Moktar Ould Daddah. In early June 1976, a force of several hundred Polisario guerrillas...

verification procedure. On 27 September, former Minister of the Interior Mohamed Ould Boilil publicly confirmed the reports and declared that the government would...

Army and Government apparatus. In 1978, the one-party government of Moktar Ould Daddah was severely compromised by the failing war effort, and fell to a...

which had been fighting Mauritania since the Government of President Moktar Ould Daddah entered the Western Sahara War in 1975. The CMSN opted for a full...

person, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, has served on two non-consecutive occasions. The current head of state of Mauritania is President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani,...

President Sidi el-Mokhtar N'Diaye, it was de facto headed by Moktar Ould Daddah. Daddah founded the party in May 1958 in an attempt to unite the various...

the part of some to try to put aside their differences. President Moktar Ould Daddah was able gradually to gain the support of numerous opposition parties...

Sardauna of Sokoto, on 15 January 1966. On 18 July 1974, President Moktar Ould Daddah, who was on a state visit to Nigeria, paid a visit to Sultan Sir Abubakar...

1960, Mauritania became an independent nation. In 1964 President Moktar Ould Daddah, originally installed by the French, formalized Mauritania as a one-party...

[citation needed] President Moktar Ould Daddah had claimed the territory as part of "Greater Mauritania" even before independence (Ould Ahmed Salem, p. 498)...

President Moktar Ould Daddah. On 16 March 1981 he staged a coup d'état against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla with the help of former officer Mohamed Ould Abdelkader...

Mauritania. After the Independence of the country in 1960, President Moktar Ould Daddah merged his Mauritanian Regroupment Party with other opposition parties...

Mauritanian President Moktar Ould Daddah has helped decrease the prevalence of Pulaar. Hames states that the Moor supportive presidency of Daddah led to an increase...

Josip Broz Tito of former Yugoslavia, Houari Boumediene of Algeria, Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania and Yasser Arafat of Palestine, as well as several former...

coup d'état Moktar Ould Daddah Mustafa Ould Salek Coup successful 6 April 1979 1979 Mauritanian coup d'état Mustafa Ould Salek Ahmed Ould Bouceif Mohamed...

common memory of warfare and slave raids.[citation needed] President Moktar Ould Daddah, originally assisted to the post by the French, rapidly reformed Mauritania...

the election. Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, who served as a minister under Moktar Ould Daddah during the 1970s and briefly under Ould Taya in the 1980s,...