Ibrahima Sarr

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Ibrahima Moctar Sarr (Serer: Ibrayma Muxtaar Saar; Template:Langx; Pulaar: Ibrahima Muktar Saar; born in 1949) is a Mauritanian journalist and politician of Serer origin. His surname Sarr, being one of the classic Serer patronyms.[1]

Running as an independent candidate, 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) party from August 2007 until January 2024.[2][3]

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 (ex-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-racist publication, which highlighted alleged "racial practices" by the Mauritanian Government, many black leaders were arrested and thrown to jail. Ibrahima Moctar Sarr was sentenced to four years in jail.

In 1989, after being released from jail, Sarr left and resigned from FLAM and ceased all his political activities until the democratization process was started in 1992 by President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya. Sarr then joined the Popular Progressive Alliance (APP) under Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, becoming a leading member of the party. He later left the APP.[4]

Sarr stood in the March 2007 presidential election on an anti-racist platform. In order to facilitate his candidacy, he founded the "Movement for National Reconciliation", although he stood as an independent. Claiming that "I am the candidate of the oppressed", he called for equal rights for Pulaar, Soninké and Wolof people alongside Moors, and the return of Mauritanian refugees from Senegal. Sarr came in fifth place with 7.95% of the vote in the election,[5] and he backed Ahmed Ould Daddah for the second round.[6]

Sarr's Movement for National Reconciliation subsequently merged with the Alliance for Justice and Democracy (AJD), and at an extraordinary congress to ratify the merger on August 18–19, Sarr was elected as the leader of the new party, the AJD/MR.[4]

Sarr said on May 10, 2008, that the AJD/MR would not participate in the government of Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef due to many policy differences.[7][8]

Following the August 2008 military coup, Sarr and the AJD/MR expressed support for the military junta,[9] and Sarr announced on April 11, 2009, that he would be a candidate in the controversial June 2009 presidential election, which was being organized by the junta and which opposition parties were planning to boycott. Sarr then said that "the conditions are there for a free poll" and that Mauritania did not have democracy under Abdallahi's presidency.[10] The Constitutional Court approved four candidacies, including Sarr's, on April 28.[11][12]

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References

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  1. ↑ Mwakikagile, Godfrey, "The Gambia and Its People: Ethnic Identities and Cultural Integration in Africa", p.141, New Africa Press (2010), Template:ISBN [1]
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  4. ↑ a b Birome Guèye, "IBRAHIMA SARR, LEADER DE l’AJD/MR : En quête d’ouverture", Africanglobalnews.com, August 24, 2007 Template:In lang.
  5. ↑ "Le conseil constitutionnel proclame les résultats du premier tour de l'élection présidentielles du 11 mars 2007"Script error: No such module "Unsubst"., Agence Mauritanienne d'Information, March 15, 2007 Template:In lang.
  6. ↑ "Mauritania : Ould Daddah gets support of fifth place holder for presidential runoff"Script error: No such module "Unsubst"., African Press Agency, March 20, 2007.
  7. ↑ "L'AJD/MR annonce qu'il ne participera au nouveau gouvernement" Template:Webarchive, AMI, May 10, 2008 Template:In lang.
  8. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  10. ↑ "Pro-coup leader to stand in Mauritania presidential poll", AFP, 11 April 2009.
  11. ↑ "Four cleared to run in Mauritania presidential poll", AFP, 29 April 2009.
  12. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".

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