• Lt. Col. Ahmed Ould Bouceif (Arabic: أحمد ولد بوسيف, 1934 – 27 May 1979) was a Mauritanian military officer and political leader. On April 6, 1979, he...
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    the CMRN. On 6 April 1979, a second coup by Colonels Ahmed Ould Bouceif and Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla reduced Mustafa to a symbolic and figurehead...
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  • Mustafa Ould Salek and helped Ahmed Ould Bouceif to become the Prime Minister. After Ould Bouceif died in an airplane crash on 27 May 1979, Ould Sidi temporarily...
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    prime minister, Col. Ahmed Ould Bouceif, with whom he had seized power for the CMSN just a month earlier, from Col. Mustafa Ould Salek and the CRMN. On...
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    On April 6, 1979, Mohamed Mahmoud and Ahmed Ould Bouceif supported by Lieutenant-Colonel Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla and the new Military Committee...
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    Moktar Ould Daddah (Arabic: مختار ولد داداه, romanized: Mukhtār Wald Dāddāh; 25 December 1924 – 14 October 2003) was a Mauritanian politician who served...
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    Association of Colleges of Nursing from 1972 to 1974 (b. 1915) May 27 – Ahmed Ould Bouceif, Mauritanian military officer, second Prime Minister of Mauritania...
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  • Ould (1820–1882), American lawyer Ahmed Ould Bouceif (1934–1979), Mauritanian military and political leader Ahmed Ould Daddah (born 1942), Mauritanian economist...
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    on the Gulf War. Maaouya Ould Sidi Ahmed Ould Taya was born on 28 November 1941 in Atar, then part of French Mauritania. Ould Taya attended a Franco-Arabic...
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  • Sghair Ould M'Bareck (Arabic: اسغير ولد امبارك; born 1954) is a Mauritanian politician. He was the 9th Prime Minister of Mauritania from July 6, 2003,...
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    four persons, Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla, Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar and Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna, have served...
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  • Hiller OH-23". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2024-05-22. "Colonel ahmed Ould Bouceif". Mauritania National Army. 23 January 2016. Archived from the original...
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  • (complete list) – Moktar Ould Daddah, Prime minister (1960–1961) Ahmed Ould Bouceif, Prime minister (1979) Ahmed Salim Ould Sidi, Acting Prime minister...
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    all 12 occupants of the aircraft. The Prime Minister of Mauritania Ahmed Ould Bouceif died in the crash. At the 1984 Farnborough Airshow, a DHC-5D STOL...
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    with the Polisario continued, on 27 May 1979 the junta's strongman Ahmed Ould Bouceif died in the crash of the FAIM DHC-5D that was bringing him to an ECOWAS...
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    weak, Salek's government was overthrown on April 6, 1979, by Colonel Ahmed Ould Bouceif and Colonel Mohamed Khouna Haidalla, who formed the Military Committee...
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    was led by Colonel Ahmed Ould Bouceif and Colonel Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla, who seized power from President, Colonel Mustafa Ould Salek and the 20-member...
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    Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef (Arabic: يحيى ولد أحمد الواقف; born 1960) is a Mauritanian politician. He was appointed as Prime Minister of Mauritania on 6...
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  • 1978: Mustafa Ould Salek overthrew Moktar Ould Daddah. April 6, 1979: Ahmed Ould Bouceif and Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla overthrew Mustafa Ould Salek. January...
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    by Colonel Ahmed Ould Bouceif and Colonel Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla, who seized effective power from the President, Colonel Mustafa Ould Salek. June...
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  • Helicopter". Washington Post. February 9, 1977. "India: President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Buried With Full State Honours In Grounds Of Small New Delhi Mosque". British...
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  • Scarecrow Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-8108-5839-8. Retrieved 3 May 2024. Ahmed, Moustafa (2003). Egypt in the 20th Century: Chronology of Major Events...
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    Khouna Ould Haidalla, Ahmed Ould Bouceif and fellow officers, in an internal regime/military coup on April 6, 1979, removing Colonel Mustafa Ould Salek...
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    Mitsubishi Ki-21 Taipei, Japanese Taiwan (alleged) Cause disputed Ahmed Ould Bouceif Mauritania 1979 Politician, Prime Minister of Mauritania de Havilland...
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    Responding swiftly, Mauritanian forces, under the command of Lt.-Col. Ahmed Ould Bouceif, sent 400 troops to intercept the Polisario before they could reach...
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  • Sid'Ahmed Ould Bneijara (1947 – 30 August 2017) was the 4th Prime Minister of Mauritania from December 12, 1980, until April 25, 1981. He was Minister...
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  • Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf (Arabic: مولاي ولد محمد لغظف; born 12 December 1957) served as the Prime Minister of Mauritania from August 2008 until August...
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  • Yahya Ould Hademine (Arabic: يحيى ولد حدمين; born December 31, 1953) is a Mauritanian engineer and politician who served as Defense Minister of Mauritania...
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  • people on board. The prime minister of Mauritania, Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Ould Bouceif, is among the dead. May 30 – Downeast Airlines Flight 46, a de Havilland...
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    issue. Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla became the third Prime Minister of Mauritania, four days after the death of Ahmed Ould Bouceif. The Big East Conference...
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