Ibrahim Halidi () (1954 – February 23, 2020) or officially Halidi Abderemane Ibrahim is a long-serving Comorian politician, philosophy teacher and writer.

Biography

Officially born in Adda Daoueni, he was actually born in Bandracouni, the village of his mother Naïme Mouchidra Moussa. He was born Djamil Halidi but was renamed Ibrahim Halidi in 1960 when he lived in Ouani to receive treatment and attend school. Ibrahim Halidi supervised the National Revolutionary Youth Committee and was the second most important person for

Ali Soilih Ali Soilih M'Tsashiwa (; January 7, 1937 – May 29, 1978) was a Comorian socialist revolutionary and political figure who served as the third President of the Comoros from 3 January 1976 to 13 May 1978. Biography Soilih was born in Majung ...

i's regime. When

i and his government resigned, Ibrahim Halidi became president for about a month. The revolutionary regime sentenced Ibrahim Halidi to death in 1977 at a trial in the Hotel Alamal. After the May 1978 coup against

i, Ibrahim Halidi was imprisoned in Hombo and Patsy in

Anjouan Anjouan () is an autonomous volcanic island in the Comoro Islands in the southwestern Indian Ocean, part of the Comoros, Union of the Comoros. It is known in Comorian languages, Shikomori as Ndzuani, Ndzuwani or Nzwani, and, until the early twentie ...

. He obtained his baccalaureate in 1978 and went to

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to study philosophy and education at the

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. He returned to the

Comoros The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city is Moroni, ...

in 1983 and taught philosophy at a secondary school in

Fomboni Fomboni (population approximately 19,000) is the fifth-largest city in the Comoros. It is also the capital and largest city on the Autonomous Island of Mohéli, of which it makes up more than one third of the population. Characterized as quiet ...

( Moheli), then in

Mutsamudu Mutsamudu (also known as Moutsamoudou) is the second-largest city in the Comoros. It is also the capital and largest city on the island of Anjouan as well the former home of former Comorian president Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi. It now houses a d ...

and Domoni (

). After the 1990 presidential election, Ibrahim Halidi became Minister of the Interior, then Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sport. He founded the Union of Democrats for Decentralisation (UDD) party with Saïd El Anis Mohamed Djohar and Mohamed Dhakoine Abdou. After the general elections of 22 and 29 November 1992, Ibrahim Halidi became a member of parliament, before being appointed

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of the

from January to May 1993. Ibrahim Halidi stood in the presidential elections of March 1996. After this election, he became Minister of Public Health, Population and Social Affairs, then Minister of Transport, Tourism and Telecommunications. Halidi en Afrique du sud

After the dissolution of the Union of Democrats for Decentralisation (UDD), Ibrahim Halidi became secretary general and then president of another party, the Movement for the Comoros (MPC). In December 2002, he ran for president of the autonomous island of

and came second. In the presidential elections of April and May 2006, he also stood for election and came second. Anis Djohar et Ibrahim Halidi

He was diagnosed with

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in 2017 in

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. He underwent treatment in

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and

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. He died in

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hospital in

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on 23 February 2020.Décès en France
M. HALIDI ABDEREMANE Ibrahim
/ref> He is the author of the book ''Comores. Unité dans la pluralité'', published in 2021 by

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