Daddah

[ dad-uh, dah-dah ]

noun

1. Mokh·tar Ould [moh, kh, -, tahr, ould], 1924–2003, Mauritanian statesman: first president of the Republic of Mauritania 1961–78.

Example Sentences

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