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A High Stakes Struggle: the Crescent, the Horse and the Tank

Posted in Africa, Ahmed Ould Daddah, Arabs, Francophonie, Maghreb, Mauritania, Messoud Boulkheir, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Recently in Mauritania, Sahel, Third World, balance of power, politics, reform on 16 July, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Ahmed Ould Daddah, head of the RFD and historic leader of Mauritania’s opposition, has run in practically every Mauritanian presidential election since 1991. His brother, Mokhtar Ould Daddah, was Mauritania’s single party president, was deposed in a military coup in the midst of the bungled war in the Western Sahara in [...]

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