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.
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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
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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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Mohamed Khouna became prime minister on 31 May 1979, a few days after the death in an
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was appointed prime minister. Another attempted coup was allegedly sponsored by
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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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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-
1075:"MAURITANIA: Ould Haidallah trial to begin on Monday"
834:"Mauritanian Coup Attempt Fails After Bloody Clashes"
343:, CMSN) from 4 January 1980 to 12 December 1984.
852:"Career Soldier Takes Over As Premier of Mauritania"
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725:"MAURITANIA COUP OUSTS PRESIDENT (Published 1984)"
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888:"Mauritania's President Arrested by Coup Leader"
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870:"Mauritania: Political Disintegration"
1398:"Appel pour des raisons humanitaires"
682:interfering in Mauritanian affairs.
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1939:Mauritanian prisoners and detainees
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1136:"Charges for Mauritania candidate"
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325:Muḥammad Khouna Wald Haidalla
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602:Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
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106:Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
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1001:"Mauritania / History"
1458:Ahmed Salim Ould Sidi
1321:on 28 September 2007.
1123:Amnesty International
959:"Mauritania: Morocco"
824:, September 23, 1984.
535:Republic of the Congo
519:Franco-African Summit
448:. As a member of the
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137:Ahmed Salim Ould Sidi
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1065:, December 28, 2006.
1011:on 29 September 2018
1005:LookLex Encyclopedia
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896:, December 14, 1984.
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322:محمد خونا ولد هيداله
42:محمد خونا ولد هيداله
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1267:Middle East Online
1126:, 14 November 2003
1116:2006-11-28 at the
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