Ibrahima Moctar Sarr
| Ibrahima Moctar Sarr | |
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| إبراهيما مختار صار | |
| President of the AJD/MR | |
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Assumed office August 2007 |
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| Leader of the FLAM | |
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In office November 1983 – 1989 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 1949 (age 67–68) Boghé, Colony of Mauritania |
| Political party | AJD/MR (2007 - present) |
| Other political affiliations |
FLAM (1983 - 1989) Mauritanian Workers Party |
| Occupation | Journalist, Politician |
Ibrahima Moctar Sarr (Arabic: إبراهيما مختار صار; born 1949) is a Mauritanian journalist and politician. Running as an independent, he placed fifth in the March 2007 presidential election, and he has been the President of the Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal (AJD/MR) since August 2007.
After studying in Cesti, Senegal, Sarr trained as a teacher before working in insurance. He became politically active in 1972, being a co-founder member of the Mauritanian Workers Party. Increasingly active as a journalist, he appeared regularly on radio and television. In 1983 he was a co-founder of the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLAM; Force pour la Liberation Africaine de Mauritanie), and in 1986 he was a communication specialist with FLAM when they published the second edition of the Manifesto of the oppressed black Mauritanian. Following this anti-racist publication, which highlighted racial and discriminatory practices by the Mauritanian government, many black leaders were arrested and thrown to jail. Ibrahima Sarr was sentenced to four years in jail.
In 1989, after being released from jail, Sarr resigned from FLAM and ceased his political activities until the democratization process was started in 1992 by President Taya. Sarr then joined the Popular Progressive Alliance (APP) under Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, becoming a leading member of the party. He later left the APP.
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