Mauritania: Remembering the Country’s First Military Coup · Global Voices
أحمد جدو

July 10, 2012, marked the 34th anniversary of the first military coup in Mauritania. In 1978, the military overthrew president Moktar Ould Daddah, Mauritania's first president after achieving independence from France in 1960.
Since then the country has experienced a succession of military coups, the latest of which was carried out by Brigadier General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who overthrew President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Mauritania's first elected civilian president, on August 6, 2008.
Mauritanian activists remembered the anniversary by blogging and tweeting about it, and criticising military rule in Mauritania.
Moktar Ould Daddah, 1977.  Image from Romanian Communism Online Photo Collection, via Wikimedia Commons.
The blogger at the Boutilimit Today blog (which takes its name from the hometown of the president overthrown in 1978) recalled what happened after the coup [ar]:
The activist Baba Ould Brahim wrote about the anniversary on his blog Surakh Al Watan (“The Scream of The Nation”):
Arrest of activists of 25 February movement. From Mouvement du 25 Février Facebook page.
The 25 February movement activist Med Lemine Echvagha tweeted about the anniversary:
The blogger Sidi Al Tib Ould Mojteba wrote:
The activist Baba Ould Hourma commented on the revival of the July 10 anniversary by the 25 February movement: