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Lt. Col. Ahmed Ould Bouceif (, 1934 – 27 May 1979) was a
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, ...
n military officer and political leader. On April 6, 1979, he seized power in a
coup d'état A coup d'état (; ; ), or simply a coup , is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership. A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to powe ...
together with Col. Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah and other officers, ousting Col.
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from real power, however kept in his symbolic position with no real power until June 3, 1979. He became the 2nd
Prime Minister of Mauritania This is a list of prime ministers of Mauritania since the formation of the post of Prime Minister of Mauritania in 1960 to the present day. A total of seventeen people have served as Prime Minister of Mauritania (not counting one acting prime ...
in the new government. He died the following month when a
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airplane of the
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, crashed off the coast of
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, Senegal, at which point Haidallah emerged as the regime's main strongman.


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1934 births 1979 deaths Prime ministers of Mauritania Mauritanian military personnel 20th-century Mauritanian people State leaders killed in aviation accidents or incidents Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Senegal {{Mauritania-mil-bio-stub Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1979