Mauritanian Progressive Union
The Mauritanian Progressive Union (french: Union progressiste mauritanienne, 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 Agreement party. The first election contested by the party was the 1951 French National Assembly elections, in which its candidate Sidi el-Mokhtar N'Diaye defeated the incumbent MP Horma Ould Babana. The following year Moktar Ould Daddah became party leader.Pazzanita, p6 The Territorial Assembly elections that year saw the UPM won 22 of the 24 seats. N'Diaye was re-elected in the 1956 French elections, receiving 84% of the vote. The 1957 Territorial Assembly elections saw the party win 33 of the 34 seats.Pazzanita, p6 In 1958 the party merged with the Mauritanian Agreement and the Gorgol Democratic Bloc to form the Mauritanian Regroupment Party Mauritanian Regroupment Party (PRM, French ''Parti de Regro ...
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Mauritania
Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية), is a sovereign country in West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and the 28th-largest in the world, and 90% of its territory is situated in the Sahara. Most of its population of 4.4 million lives in the temperate south of the country, with roughly one-third concentrated in the capital and largest city, Nouakchott, located on the Atlantic coast. The country's name derives from the ancient Berber kingdom of Mauretania, located in North Africa within the ancient Maghreb. Berbers occupied what is now Mauritania ...
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Mauritanian Agreement
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 original inhabitants of Mauritania were the Bafour, presumably a Mande ethnic group, connected to the contemporary Arabized minor social group of '' Imraguen'' ("fishermen") on the Atlantic coast. The territory of Mauritania was on the fri ... * '' The Mauritanian'', 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 clima ...
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Sidi El-Mokhtar N'Diaye
''Sidi'' or ''Sayidi'', also Sayyidi and Sayeedi, ( ar, سيدي, Sayyīdī, Sīdī (dialectal) "milord") is an Arabic masculine title of respect. ''Sidi'' is used often to mean "saint" or "my master" in Maghrebi Arabic and Egyptian Arabic. Without the first person possessive object pronoun ''-ī'' (ي-), the word is used similarly in other dialects, in which case it would be the equivalent to modern popular usage of the English '' Mr''. It is also used in dialects such as Eastern Arabic, as well as by Muslims of the Indian subcontinent in the Urdu language where, however, it does not have as much currency as ''Sayyid (same spelling: سيد)'', ''Janab'' or ''Sahib''. Specific usage Occasionally a respected member of Muslim society will be given the title ''Sidi'' by default in recognition of upright standing and wisdom. This especially applies to marabouts, hence the term appears in places and mosques named after one. Morocco *''Sidi'', the title, translated as 'Lord', used ...
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Horma Ould Babana
Horma Ould Babana (1 March 1912 – 7 July 1979), 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 no ...
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Moktar Ould Daddah
Moktar Ould Daddah ( ar, مختار ولد داداه, Mukhtār Wald Dāddāh; December 25, 1924 – October 14, 2003) was a Mauritanian politician who led the country after it gained its independence from France. Daddah served as the country's first Prime Minister from 1957 to 1961 and as its first President of Mauritania, a position he held from 1960 until he was deposed in a military coup d'etat in 1978. He established a 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 nationalizations of private businesses. In his memoirs, Daddah 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 Zedong and the People's Republic of China, but he also accepted Western (especially French) foreign aid. During his ...
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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 (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...

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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 Elections in Mauritania Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...

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 (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...

Gorgol Democratic Bloc
Gorgol may refer to: * Gorgol Region, Mauritania * Gorgol River The Gorgol River is a river of southern Mauritania that is a tributary of the Sénégal River. The river is formed by the confluence of the Gorgol Noir (194 km in length), with the Gorgol Blanc (345 km in length). The Gorgol joins the S� ...

Mauritanian Regroupment Party
Mauritanian Regroupment Party (PRM, French ''Parti de Regroupement Mauritanien''; Arabic: حزب التجمع الموريتاني ) 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 Entente Mauritanienne, 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 Greater Morocco is a label historically used by some Moroccan nationalist political lead ...
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