Mauritanian Progressive Union
The Mauritanian Progressive Union (, UPM) was a political party in pre-independence Mauritania. History The UPM was established in February 1948, in order to form a more conservative and regionally-based opposition to the Mauritanian Entente party. The first election contested by the party was the French legislative election, 1951 (Mauritania), 1951 French National Assembly elections, in which its candidate defeated the incumbent MP Horma Ould Babana. The following year Moktar Ould Daddah became party leader.Pazzanita, p6 The Mauritanian Territorial Assembly election, 1952, Territorial Assembly elections that year saw the UPM won 22 of the 24 seats. N'Diaye was re-elected in the French legislative election, 1956 (Mauritania), 1956 French elections, receiving 84% of the vote. The Mauritanian Territorial Assembly election, 1957, 1957 Territorial Assembly elections saw the party win 33 of the 34 seats.Pazzanita, p6 In 1958 the party merged with the Mauritanian Entente and the Gorgo ...
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Moktar Ould Daddah
Moktar Ould Daddah (; December 25, 1924 – October 14, 2003) was a Mauritanian politician who served as the country's first President after it gained its independence from France. Moktar served as the country's first List of prime ministers of Mauritania, Prime Minister from 1957 to 1961 and as its first List of heads of state of Mauritania, President of Mauritania, a position he held for 18 years until he was deposed in a military 1978 Mauritanian coup d'état, coup d'etat in 1978. He established an authoritarian one-party state, with his Mauritanian People's Party being the sole legal political entity in the country, and followed a policy of "Islamic socialism" with many Nationalization, nationalizations of private businesses. In his memoirs, Moktar expressed concern that the issue of slavery in Mauritania could lead to armed conflict that would ultimately destroy the country. In foreign affairs, he joined the Non-Aligned Movement and maintained strong links with Mao Zedon ...
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Mauritanian Regroupment Party
The Mauritanian Regroupment Party (PRM, ; ) was a political party in Mauritania from 1958 to 1961. Although nominally led by party President Sidi el-Mokhtar N'Diaye, it was de facto headed by Moktar Ould Daddah. Foundation Daddah founded the party in May 1958 in an attempt to unite the various competing political groups within Mauritania into a single inclusive organisation so as to both strengthen the credibility of Mauritanian independence movement and secure his own power. At the Council of Aleg Daddah persuaded the Mauritanian Progressive Union, the Mauritanian Entente, and the black nationalist Bloc Démocratique du Gorgol to merge to form the Mauritanian Regroupment Party. Ideology The party was strongly nationalistic, and opposed the inclusion of Mauritania into either a Greater Morocco, or any other form of federation, rejecting a proposal by France for a federation uniting all of its Saharan African territories into a Common Saharan States Organization. The party did ho ...
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Mauritania
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to Mauritania–Western Sahara border, the north and northwest, Algeria to Algeria–Mauritania border, the northeast, Mali to Mali–Mauritania border, the east and southeast, and Senegal to Mauritania–Senegal border, the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara. Most of its population of some 4.3 million lives in the temperate south of the country; roughly a third of the population is concentrated in the capital and largest city, Nouakchott, on the Atlantic coast. The country's name derives from Mauretania, the Latin name for a region in the ancient Maghreb. It extended from central present-day Algeria to the Atlantic. Berbers occupied what is now Mauritania by the beginning of the third centu ...
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Mauritanian Entente
Mauritanian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Mauritania, a country in northwest Africa * A person from Mauritania, or of Mauritanian descent. For information about the Mauritanian people, see Demographics of Mauritania. * Note that there is no language called "Mauritanian". For Mauritania's official language, see Arabic. * For the history of Mauritania, see History of Mauritania * ''The Mauritanian ''The Mauritanian'' is a 2021 legal drama film based on the memoir of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man who was held from 2002 to 2016 without charge in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a United States military prison. The film was dire ...'', 2021 film directed by Kevin Macdonald See also * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages Mauritania ...
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French Legislative Election, 1951 (Mauritania)
Elections to the French National Assembly were held in Mauritania on 17 June 1951. Mauritania had one seat in the Assembly, which was won by Sidi el-Mokhtar N'Diaye, a member of the Mauritanian Progressive Union. He defeated the incumbent, Horma Ould Babana, who had been elected as a member of the French Section of the Workers' International in the last election, but had since gone on to leave the SFIO and form his own party, the Mauritanian Entente.Pazzanita, p255 Background The UPM was a conservative and regionally based organisation that had been expressly formed in order to oppose Babana's Mauritanian Entente. The party was supported by the colonial administration and its allies, the traditional Maure secular and clerical ruling classes, who feared the Mauritanian Entente's "socialist" program.Warner, Rachel. "Postwar Reforms". In Handloff. Babana had spent much of his five-year term in Paris, resulting in him becoming disconnected from the changing Mauritanian political cli ...
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Horma Ould Babana
Horma Ould Babana (1 March 1912 – 1 July 1980), also known as Ahmedou Bin Horma, Ahmedou Ould Horma Ould Babana and Horma Babana, was a Mauritanian politician who was active in the country's struggle against colonialism. Babana was the first Mauritanian deputy to the French National Assembly. Early life Born on 1 March 1912 in Mederdra, Babana studied the Quran and Arabic language and literature. He was educated in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Babana's mother and neighbours were concerned that when he left his village, he would lose his cultural identity and support the French colonists. After completing his studies at age 27, he taught briefly before becoming a French translator throughout Mauritania for ten years. When Babana clashed with French officers in Atar over their harassment of Mauritanian women at a dance, he was fired, fined and exiled to Niger. Political career After learning the requirements of the French Fourth Republic constitution, in October 1946 Babana nomi ...
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Mauritanian Territorial Assembly Election, 1952
Territorial Assembly elections were held in Mauritania on 30 March 1952. The result was a victory for the Mauritanian Progressive Union, which won 22 of the 24 seats. Electoral system The Territorial Assembly was elected by two colleges; the first college elected 8 members and the second 16.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) ''Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband'', p1364 Results References {{Mauritanian elections Parliamentary elections in Mauritania Mauritania Parliamentary Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Mauritania Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to Mauritania–Western Sahara border, the north and northwest, ...

Library Of Congress Country Studies
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French Legislative Election, 1956 (Mauritania)
Elections to the French National Assembly were held in Mauritania on 2 January 1956. Mauritania had one seat in the Assembly, which was won by Sidi el-Mokhtar N'Diaye, a member of the Mauritanian Progressive Union. Results References Mauritania French French elections in Mauritania Mauritania Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to Mauritania–Western Sahara border, the north and northwest, ...

Mauritanian Territorial Assembly Election, 1957
Territorial Assembly elections were held in Mauritania on 31 March 1957. The result was a victory for the Mauritanian Progressive Union, which won 33 of the 34 seats.Anthony G. Pazzanita (2008) ''Historical Dictionary of Mauritania'', Scarecrow Press, p6 The other seat was won by an independent candidate in the Baie du Levrier constituency. Results References {{Mauritanian elections Territorial Parliamentary elections in Mauritania Mauritania Mauritania Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to Mauritania–Western Sahara border, the north and northwest, ...

Gorgol Democratic Bloc
Gorgol may refer to: * Gorgol Region Gorgol () is a region in southern Mauritania. Its capital is Kaédi and the Gorgol River forms parts of the landscape. Other major cities/towns include M'Bout and Maghama. The region borders the Mauritanian regions of Brakna and Assaba to th ..., Mauritania * Gorgol River, Mauritania {{geodis ...
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Defunct Political Parties In Mauritania
Defunct may refer to: * ''Defunct'' (video game), 2014 * Zombie process or defunct process, in Unix-like operating systems See also * * :Former entities * End-of-life product * Obsolescence Obsolescence is the process of becoming antiquated, out of date, old-fashioned, no longer in general use, or no longer useful, or the condition of being in such a state. When used in a biological sense, it means imperfect or rudimentary when comp ...