Presidential elections were held in Mauritania on 11 March 2007. As no candidate received a majority of the votes, a second round was held on 25 March...
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Presidential elections were held in Mauritania on 7 November 2003. As expected, incumbent President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was easily re-elected against...
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Mauritanian junta chief elected party head", AFP, 6 May 2009. "Mauritania coup leader says election won't be delayed", AFP, 14 May 2009. "Mauritanian...
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chief of staff of the Mauritanian Army and head of the presidential guard, who had recently been fired. Mauritania's presidential spokesman, Abdoulaye...
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Party in 2022. Mohamed Ould Ghazouani's victory in the 2019 Mauritanian presidential election was presented as having been the country's first peaceful...
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political parties in Mauritania. After the Independence of the country in 1960, President Moktar Ould Daddah merged his Mauritanian Regroupment Party with...
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and female candidates. The Mauritanian diaspora gets allocated four seats, with this election being the first time Mauritanians in the diaspora are able...
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the Mauritanian armed forces budget was 3.9% of the country's GDP. The military forces of Mauritania are listed by the IISS Military Balance 2007 as comprising...
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Mauritania, and suspended Mauritania's membership in the African Union. The Mauritanian military government ended after a fair presidential election was...
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Indirect Senatorial elections were held in Mauritania on 21 January 2007, with a second round on 4 February 2007. There are 56 seats in the Senate. The...
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presidency, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani's victory in the 2019 Mauritanian presidential election was presented as having been the country's first peaceful...
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The 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état was a military coup that took place in Mauritania on August 6, 2008, when President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted...
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March 20, 2007. "How Sidi Ould Abdellahi won the Mauritanian presidential election"[permanent dead link], African Press Agency, March 27, 2007. "L'Assemblée...
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Mauritania, Scarecrow Press, p397 Elections in Mauritania African Elections Database Mauritanian tycoon jumps into presidential race Panapress, 26 October 2006...
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Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya (category Mauritanian Sunni Muslims)
al-Taya (born 28 November 1941) is a Mauritanian military officer and politician who served as the President of Mauritania from 1984 to 2005. He also served...
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Malian presidential election 2007 Mauritanian Senate election 2007 Mauritanian presidential election 2007 Moroccan parliamentary election 2007 Nigerian...
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Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi (category Mauritanian Sunni Muslims)
عبد الله; 1938 – 22 November 2020) was a Mauritanian politician who was President of Mauritania from 2007 to 2008. He served in the government during...
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The 2003 Mauritanian coup d'état attempt was a violent military coup attempt in Mauritania which took place on 8–9 June 2003. The coup attempt, led by...
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of the Oppressed Black Mauritanian (Manifeste du négro-mauritanien opprimé), which documented discrimination against Mauritania's black populations in every...
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the formation of Mauritanian-controlled joint ventures, the creation of a national fishing fleet, and the establishment of a Mauritanian-controlled fish...
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Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla (category Mauritanian military personnel)
presidential election and the 2007 presidential election. Born in 1940 in the Nouadhibou region (either in then-Spanish Sahara or colonial Mauritania[citation...
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ties. Relations between the U.S. and Mauritania reached a low in the spring of 1991, as details of the Mauritanian military's role in widespread human...
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the presidential election, as the President of Mauritania cannot be a member of any party. The party also won 13 of the 17 seats up for re-election to...
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President of the Islamic Republic Political parties Mauritanian Regroupment Party (PRM) Mauritanian People's Party (PPM) Democratic and Social Republican...
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States presidential election, Republican nominee and then-incumbent president Donald Trump pursued an unprecedented effort to overturn the election, with...
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Ely Ould Mohamed Vall (category Heads of state of Mauritania)
was a Mauritanian political and military figure. Following a coup d'état in August 2005, he served as the transitional military leader of Mauritania until...
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Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar (category Ambassadors of Mauritania to Spain)
May 1957) is a Mauritanian politician who has been Prime Minister of Mauritania twice, from 1992 to 1996 and again from 2005 to 2007. Born in Atar in...
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Biram Dah Abeid (category Mauritanian Muslims)
the 2014 Mauritanian presidential election, but lost to the incumbent, Abdel Aziz. On 11 November 2014, Abeid and sixteen other IRA-Mauritania anti-slavery...
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