Socialist Union of Mauritanian Muslims
The Socialist Union of Mauritanian Muslims (Arabic: اتحاد الاشتراكيين المسلمين الموريتانيين, French: Union socialiste des musulmans mauritaniens, abbreviated USMM) was a political party in Mauritania. The party was founded in February 1960.[1] Achmed Ould Kerkoub was the leader of the party.[2]
The party was based in the Adrar Region, and represented French military interests in the area.[1][3] It submitted its charter to the authorities in Atar on February 25, 1960.[3] USMM supported the French plan of the Common Organization of Saharan Regions (OCRS) and wished that Mauritania would remain within the French Community.[1] The leaders of the party were generally Moor chiefs that had previously been linked to the Mauritanian Regroupment Party (PRM).[4][5]
The party sought to compete with the banned Nahda party in the Adrar Region, and its charter had some common points with the moderate sectors of Nahda.[3][6] At the time around the 1958 French constitutional referendum USMM had moved closer to the governing PRM.[1] In 1961 USMM and the other political parties in the country were merged into the Mauritanian People's Party (PPM), the sole legal party in the country.[7]
References
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- ^ Sándor Radó (1962). Welthandbuch: Internationaler politischer wirtschaftlicher Almanach 1962. Corvina Verlag. p. 821.
- ^ a b c Alfred G. Gerteiny (1967). Mauritania. Praeger. p. 133.
- ^ Mokhtar Ould Daddah (2003). La Mauritanie contre vents et marées. KARTHALA Editions. p. 202. ISBN 978-2-84586-437-5.
- ^ Endre Sík (1966). The History of Black Africa. Akadémiai Kiadó. p. 230.
- ^ Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée (72-74 ed.). Edisud. 1995. p. 103. ISBN 978-2-85744-809-9.
- ^ Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig. Sektion Afrika- und Nahostwissenschaften. Lehr- und Forschungsbereich Arabische Staaten (1983). Geschichte der Araber: von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Akademie-Verlag. p. 456.
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