Daddah
Americannoun
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Daddah is a man; he likes to be called a he.
From Washington Post
Colonel Mustapha Ould Mohammed Salek, 42, had overthrown the regime of President Moktar Ould Daddah, 53, the mild-mannered strongman who had ruled the poverty-stricken country of 1.5 million Muslims since it gained independence from France in 1960.
From Time Magazine Archive
Daddah was arrested at home and bundled off unharmed to a site outside the capital.
From Time Magazine Archive
The officers accused Daddah of corruption, but a more likely reason for the coup was Mauritania's woeful record in the drawn-out guerrilla war it is fighting, alongside Morocco, in the former Spanish Sahara.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mauritania's President Moktar Ould Daddah, for instance, had been overthrown by a military coup shortly before he was supposed to leave for Nouakchott Airport to catch a plane to Khartoum.
From Time Magazine Archive
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