Moktar Ould Daddah

Moktar Ould Daddah ( "Mukhtār Wald Dāddāh"; December 25, 1924 – October 14, 2003) was the President of Mauritania from 1960, when his country gained its independence from France, to 1978, when he was removed in a military coup d'etat.
He died in Paris after a long-illness on October 14, 2003 at the age of 78.