DADDAH, MOKTAR OULD

mookhˈtär oold dädˈdä, 1924–2003, president of Mauritania (1961–78). He became premier when Mauritania joined the French Community (1958). Elected president when Mauritania gained independence (1961), he identified the nation with Arab North Africa. Reelected four times, he was overthrown in a coup in 1978 due to the unpopular war against guerrillas in the S Western Sahara, and went into exile in France.

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books on: Daddah Moktar Ould  - 19 results

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An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996
Book by John E. Jessup; Greenwood Press, 1998
Subjects: Conflict Management--History--20th Century--Dictionaries, Military History, Modern--20th Century--Dictionaries, Political Violence--History--20th Century--Dictionaries
...Czech Republic, See Czechoslovakia. d Dacca, See Bangladesh. Dacko, David, 80 , 113 , 147-48 , 401 Daddah, Moktar Ould, See Ould Daddah. Dae-Sook Suh, 398 el-Dahab, Abd ar-Rahman Sower, 148 , 699 Dahomey, See Benin. Dakar, See...
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Mauritania
Book by James Morrow; Mason Crest, 2004
Subjects: Mauritania--Juvenile Literature
...Shaykh Ma, 47-48 Babana, Horma Ould, 52, 54-55 Bafour, 32, 33...Maures (Moors) Bouceif,Ahmed Ould, 59 Boumdeid, 15 Brakna, 46...48 See also France currency, 67 Daddah, Moktar Ould, 53, 54, 55, 57-59, 60...
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A Survey of North West Africa (The Maghrib)
Book by Nevill Barbour; Oxford University Press, 1962
Subjects: Africa, North
...48 f., 352 - 3 . See also Libya for items referring to country as a whole. Czechoslovakia, Tunisia and, 381 Daddah, Moktar ould, 271 Darghat Pasha, 349 Daud, Mohammed, 159 Decatur, Stephen, 42 , 350 Delcasse , Theophile, 89 Derkawa confraternity...
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France's Relationship with Subsaharan Africa
Book by Anton Andereggen; Praeger Publishers, 1994
Subjects: Africa, Sub-Saharan--Foreign Relations--1960-, Africa, Sub-Saharan--Foreign Relations--France, France--Foreign Relations--1945-, France--Foreign Relations--Africa, Sub-Saharan
...93 Culture. See Dissemination of French culture Da Brazza, Pierre Savorgnan, 13 - 14 , 18 Dacko, David, 57 Daddah, Moktar Ould, 72 Dahomey. See also Benin cooperation agreements with France, 63 French colony, 3 , 8 , 16 Republic, 67...
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Foreign Aid, Self-Reliance, and Economic Development in West Africa
Book by R. Omotayo Olaniyan; Praeger, 1996
Subjects: Africa, West--Economic Policy, Economic Assistance--Africa, West, Sustainable Development--Africa, West
...role of the World Bank, 72; volume of ex- ports, 2 Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), 42, 91 1 Daddah, Moktar Ould, 140 Democracy: encouragement of, 77; transi- tion to, 81 1 Denmark, 131; cooperation with multilat- eral...
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Colonizing the Mahadra: Language, Identity, and Power in Mauritania under French Control
Journal article by Erin Pettigrew; Ufahamu : Journal of the African Activist Association, Vol. 33, 2007
...Hadith, or life of the Prophet. Moktar Ould Daddah, the first president of Mauritania...from the French school system, Moktar Ould Daddah was a product of this system...Republic of Mauritania with Moktar Ould Daddah as its president, the formal...


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A Poet Passes: Leopold Sedar Senghor Remembered
Magazine article by Ahmedou Ould Abdallah; The National Interest, Spring 2002
Subjects: Poets--Biography, Senghor, Leopold Sedar--Biography
...Sedar Senghor Remembered. by Ahmedou Ould Abdallah IN 1961, less than twelve...friend to visit my own President, Moktar Ould Daddah, then the guest of his Senegalese...translated by Melvin Dixon Ahmedou Ould Abdallah is executive secretary of...
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Convenings, Call for Papers, Student Chat, Training Tool, Deaths
Magazine article by Laila Al-Arian; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 23, January 2004
...Deaths Former Mauritanian president Moktar Ould Daddah, 79, died Oct. 15 in a Paris...founding father" of Mauritania, Daddah ruled the West African nation from...independence. Two years later, Daddah appealed to the French government...


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Western Policy Up for a Vote; Mauritanians to Elect Leader, Choose Their Political Way
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 6, 2003
...likely to come from Muhammad Khouna Ould Haidalla, the man Mr. Taya deposed...Another prominent candidate is Ahmed Ould Daddah, half-brother of independence leader Moktar Ould Daddah who died last week at 88. A third...


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Daddah, Moktar Ould
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DADDAH, MOKTAR OULD mookh tar oold dad da, 1924 2003, president of Mauritania (1961 78). He became premier when Mauritania joined the French Community...


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