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642:, was considered pro-Western. Mohamed Khouna officially came in second place with about 19% of the vote, although he alleged fraud; he was arrested immediately after the election, accused of plotting a coup. Mohamed Khouna had also been briefly detained just prior to the vote. On December 28, 2003 he received a five-year suspended sentence and therefore was set free, but barred from politics for five years. An appeals court confirmed this sentence in April 2004. Also in April, his supporters attempted to register a political party, the Party for Democratic Convergence. 1735: 1649: 230: 588:. This led to a crisis in relations with the country's until-then ally Morocco, which had similarly annexed the remainder of Western Sahara, with Mohamed Khouna's government facing an attempted coup, troop clashes and military tension. Relations were completely severed between 1981 and 1985, when they were restored by Mohamed Khouna's successor. However, relations improved with POLISARIO's main regional backer, 696:, requesting for help to bring his son back to Mauritania or to liberate him. He denounced the conditions of imprisonment of his son, who is handicapped. On June 24, 2010, El Ghassem Ould Bellali, a Mauritanian deputy, declared that the imprisonment of Sidi Mohamed Ould Haidalla is a Moroccan "political vengeance" against his's father, for the recognition he gave to the 833: 633:
After returning to Mauritania in late 1984, Mohamed Khouna was held in administrative detention for several years by Ould Taya, during which time he fell sick. After his release, he stayed outside politics until 2003, when he returned to head the opposition. He then unsuccessfully ran for president
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in August 2008, Mohamed Khouna expressed his support for the coup in a statement on August 29, 2008, saying that it was necessary under the circumstances and urging all Mauritanians to support it. He also criticized the negative reactions of Western governments to the coup, alleging that they were
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scheduled for March 11, 2007. He campaigned on a nationalist-Islamist platform, citing the struggle against poverty and slavery as priorities. On February 3, he gained the support of another registered presidential candidate, former opposition politician and prisoner under Ould Taya,
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law in 1980-83, as well as several failed attempts to rebuild the political system shattered by the 1978 coup—first as a multiparty system, and then, after the first coup attempt against him, as a one-party state. It was also during Mohamed Khouna's rule that
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was formally and completely abolished in Mauritania, although the practice continues at a diminished level still today. He made a statement announcing the abolition of slavery in July 1980, and this was followed by a legal decree in November 1981.
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However, no longer having the political base that came with being the main candidate of the opposition under Ould Taya, Mohamed Khouna was even less successful in the 2007 election, coming in tenth place and receiving 1.73% of the vote.
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Mohamed Khouna was arrested again on November 3, 2004, accused of involvement in coup plots. The prosecutor sought a five-year prison sentence, but he was acquitted on February 3, 2005, at the end of a mass trial of 195 people.
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Following a military coup against Taya in August 2005, an amnesty in early September freed Mohamed Khouna from his sentences, along with more than a hundred others sentenced for political offenses.
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Political opponents were treated harshly, with imprisonments and those responsible for one of the failed coups against his government were executed.
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On December 12, 1984, however, Taya ousted Mohamed Khouna in a coup while the latter was out of the country. Mohamed Khouna had been at a
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On 8 March 1984, Mohamed Khouna took the office of prime minister again, replacing Taya, in a move to strengthen his personal power.
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On June 18, 2010, Mohamed Khouna wrote an open letter to the heads of state who have good relations with the
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His reign was marked by severe political turbulence, as Mauritania extracted itself from the war with the
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In July 2007, Sidi Mohamed Ould Haidalla (Mohamed Khouna's son) was detained in Morocco for
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in 1975. The CMSN opted for complete withdrawal from the conflict, evacuating southern
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Mohamed Khouna became prime minister on 31 May 1979, a few days after the death in an
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On the domestic front, his most notable policies were the institution of Islamic
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was appointed prime minister. Another attempted coup was allegedly sponsored by
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On December 27, 2006, Mohamed Khouna announced that he would be a candidate in
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and the CRMN. On 4 January 1980 he seized power from Ould Salek's successor as
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Convergence Républicaine pour l'Instauration de la Democratie en Mauritanie
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platform, whereas Taya, who had established full diplomatic ties with
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of being behind the coup, which Morocco denied, and in the next month
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charges. In 2008 he was judged and condemned to 7 years in prison.
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After 1975, he commanded forces in the north of Mauritania and
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Mohamed Khouna's main achievement was to make peace with the
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against Taya in November, campaigning on a moderately
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Born in 1940 in the Nouadhibou region (either in then-
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Former head of state of Mauritania from 1980 to 1984
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Index

Mohamed Khouna Ould Heidalla

Chairman
Military Committee for National Salvation
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
Prime Minister of Mauritania
Ahmed Salim Ould Sidi
Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
La Güera
Spanish Sahara
Nouadhibou
French West Africa
Mauritania
Mauritanian
Nouakchott
Mauritanian Army
Colonel
Western Sahara War
Ould
patronymic surname
Col.
Arabic
1940
head of state
Mauritania
Military Committee for National Salvation
2003 presidential election

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