The Military Council for Justice and Democracy ( ar, المجلس العسكري للعدالة والديمقراطية; french: Conseil Militaire pour la Justice et la Démocratie, CMJD) was a supreme political body of

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

. It served as the country's interim

government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government i ...

following the

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which ousted the

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Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya on 3 August

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."Army seizes power to end "totalitarian regime""
IRIN, August 3, 2005. It was led by the former director of the national police force,

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Ely Ould Mohamed Vall Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall ( ar, إعلي ولد محمد فال ''I‘lī Wald Muḥammad Fāl''; 1953 – 5 May 2017) was a Mauritanian political and military figure. Following a coup d'état in August 2005, he served as the transitional ...

."New military rulers face worldwide condemnation"
IRIN, August 4, 2005. After seizing power it quickly pledged to hold elections within two years, and promised that none of its own members would run. A few days after seizing power, Vall named

Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar ( ar, سيدي محمد ولد بوبكر; born 31 May 1957)
Agence Mauritanienne d'Informa ...

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following the resignation of Ould Taya's last Prime Minister,

Sghair Ould M'Bareck Sghair Ould M'Bareck ( ar, اسغير ولد امبارك; born 1954
, ''Agence Mauritanienne d'Information'', July 6, 2003 .

. A

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took place in March 2007 and the new President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was sworn in on April 19, 2007. Several members of CMJD later became members of the next Mauritanian junta, the High Council of State when it came to power in the

2008 Mauritanian coup d'état The 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état was a military coup that took place in Mauritania on August 6, 2008, when President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by the Armed Forces of Mauritania, led by a group of high-ranking generals h ...

under the leadership of general Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.

Members

*Col.

, Chairman *Col. Abderrahmane Ould Boubacar *Col. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz *Col. Mohamed Ould Ghazouani Mohamed Ould Ghazouani *Col.

Ahmed Ould Bekrine Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the v ...

*Col. Sogho Alassane *Dr.-Col. Ghoulam Ould Mohamed *Col.

Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Alem ''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. W ...

*Col.

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*Col.

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*Col.

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*Dr.-Col.

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*Col.

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*Col.

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*Col.

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*Col. Mohamed

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*Naval Col. Isselkou Ould Cheikh El Wely

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