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Alliance For Justice And Democracy - Movement For Renovation
The Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal (french: Alliance pour la justice et la démocratie/Mouvement pour la rénovation, AJD/MR; ar, التحالف من أجل العدالة والديمقراطية / حركة التجديد) is a political party in Mauritania. It represents the black minority population of the south of the country, centered on the Senegal River valley, and was formed and is led by rights activist and former presidential candidate Ibrahima Moctar Sarr. The party's colours are black and white, and its symbol is a Zebu bull, livestock being associated with the traditionally pastoralist Fula people who make up much of its constituency. Founding The party was founded in August 2007 by a merger of Ibrahima Moctar Sarr's Movement for National Reconciliation and the Alliance for Justice and Democracy (AJD) party, with Sarr elected as the leader of the new party. Sarr, a Fulani journalist, had been an activist since the 1980s, and his party def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahima Moctar Sarr
Ibrahima Moctar Sarr ( ar, إبراهيما مختار صار; Serer: Ibrahema Muktar Saar; born 1949) is a Mauritanian journalist and politician of the Serer patrilineage ''Saar'' (or ''Sarr''). Running as an independent, he placed fifth in the March 2007 presidential election, and he has been the President of the Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal (AJD/MR) since August 2007. After studying in Cesti, Senegal, Sarr trained as a teacher before working in insurance. He became politically active in 1972, being a co-founder member of the Mauritanian Workers Party. Increasingly active as a journalist, he appeared regularly on radio and television. In 1983 he was a co-founder of the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLAM; ''Force pour la Liberation Africaine de Mauritanie''), and in 1986 he was a communication specialist with FLAM when they published the second edition of the ''Manifesto of the oppressed black Mauritanian''. Following this anti-racis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |