Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla

Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidala (1940 AD in Nouadhibou), President of Mauritania, between the years 1980 AD and 1984 AD.

He started his school life from Rousseau and completed it in Senegal, where he obtained the baccalaureate in 1961 AD in Dakar and entered the military service the following year to begin his military career. He participated in the Desert War and was among the military leaders who turned on July 10, 1978 AD to the late President Mukhtar Ould Daddah, who was described as the strongman in the military government, took command of the army staff for a while and then became defense minister.

On May 31, 1979 he assumed the Prime Minister, succeeding the late Colonel Ahmed Ould Boussif, who died in the famous plane accident over the airspace of the Senegalese capital, Dakar.

On January 4, 1980, he assumed the presidency of the Military Committee for National Salvation and the Presidency of the State, succeeding Colonel Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Luli in a process of exchanging roles between the military over power, where he kept himself the position of Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, and he made adjustments to the high positions in the government that resulted in the dismissal The late Vice President Colonel Ahmed Salem Ould Sid, and thus the elimination of all political competitors, played an important and decisive role in the normalization and improvement of relations between his country and Algeria and expressed his support for the OAU's recognition of Western Sahara, where in the same year he received a delegation from the Polisario Front. Nouakchott recognized by the sole legitimate representative of the Saharawi people and to sign a peace treaty to ensure that his country's complete neutrality of the ongoing conflict at the time and at the same time cutting ties with Morocco and the expulsion of its troops from akjoujt and framework.

Mauritania knew at the beginning of his reign a failed coup attempt on March 16, 1981 AD led by a group of army officers who received support from the Moroccan regime, the perpetrators were arrested and executed by firing squad ten days later at the base of the newspaper Nouakchott North.

His period also witnessed clashes with Nasserite and Baathist Arab currents, as they were abused and dozens of them imprisoned.

He remained in power until December 12, 1984 AD, when he was overthrown by the army commander at the time, Colonel Muawiya Ould Sidi Ahmed Taya, while he was in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, to attend the African Summit. He was arrested at Nouakchott airport upon his return and was imprisoned in the prison where he remained until November 28, 1988.