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

  1. 1 2 3 4 Tribus, ethnies et pouvoir en Mauritanie. Nouvelle édition. KARTHALA Editions. 1 February 2010. pp. 106–107. ISBN 978-2-8111-3208-8.
  2. ↑ Sándor Radó (1962). Welthandbuch: Internationaler politischer wirtschaftlicher Almanach 1962. Corvina Verlag. p. 821.
  3. 1 2 3 Alfred G. Gerteiny (1967). Mauritania. Praeger. p. 133.
  4. ↑ Mokhtar Ould Daddah (2003). La Mauritanie contre vents et marées. KARTHALA Editions. p. 202. ISBN 978-2-84586-437-5.
  5. ↑ Endre Sík (1966). The History of Black Africa. Akadémiai Kiadó. p. 230.
  6. ↑ Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée (72-74 ed.). Edisud. 1995. p. 103. ISBN 978-2-85744-809-9.
  7. ↑ 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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