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Elected president when Mauritania gained independence (1961), he identified the nation with Arab North Africa. Moktar Ould Daddah , Reelected four times, he was overthrown in a coup in 1978 due to the unpopular war against guerrillas in the S Western Sahara , and went into exile in France.
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