Daddah
Americannoun
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Daddah is a man; he likes to be called a he.
From Washington Post
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
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
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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