while checking the wikipedia homepage i noticed in the news section this news flash:
President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia. Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall is named as his successor by the Military Council for Justice and Democracy.
i found it quite interesting :) he was only paying tribute after all... anyway, so by looking him up (on wikipedia too) i found that he was "former president of Mauritania, gained power by deposing Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla in a coup in December 1984. He won an election in 1992, which was said by the opposition to be fraudulent. In June 2003 he survived a coup attempt. On November 7, 2003 new elections were held, which were won by Ould Taya with 67.02% of the vote. The opposition again denounced the result as fraudulent. Taya quelled another coup attempt on the eve of a planned trip to France in August 2004."
i mention this because i liked the 67.02% thing... sounds very realistic...
am sorry.. no political talk.. just a piece of my mind :)
2 comments:
I guess he wasn't too smart to leave the country at this point. Maybe the three coup attempts should have given him a hint :)
Or maybe he was, the last one could have been an assasination if he was in the country :)
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