Mohamed Ould Ghazouani

Ghazouani spent a decade as chief of staff of the armed forces — the longest tenure in that post — before becoming minister of defence in October 2018, and he won the presidential election of 22 June 2019 in the first round with about 52 per cent of the vote.{cite:source/wikipedia-mohamed-ould-ghazouani-fr} The transfer of power that August was the first in Mauritania's history between two elected presidents. He was re-elected on 29 June 2024 with about 56 per cent, and he chaired the African Union from February 2024 to February 2025.{cite:source/wikipedia-mohamed-ould-ghazouani-fr} His presidency has overseen the prosecution of his predecessor, a period of relative stability in a coup-prone region, and the start of offshore gas production.{cite:source/wikipedia-mohamed-ould-ghazouani-en}

Ghazouani was born on 31 December 1956 at Boumdeid, in the Assaba region, according to the French and Arabic articles and Wikidata; the English article gives 4 December instead, and this record follows the majority date while keeping the variant.{cite:source/wikipedia-mohamed-ould-ghazouani-en}{cite:source/wikidata-mohamed-ould-ghazouani}

On faith, the museum records a school or affiliation only where two independent sources name it in text, and his file shows why. The French article — citing La Libre and L'Opinion — says that he defines himself as a Muslim attached to the values of Islam and to the Maliki rite, and the Arabic article carries the same passage on the same citations; an article and its mirror are one family, so the Maliki reading stands one attestation short and is preserved here rather than recorded.{cite:source/wikipedia-mohamed-ould-ghazouani-fr}{cite:source/wikipedia-mohamed-ould-ghazouani-ar} What the English text adds — a well-known Berber-Sufi family, a father who was a spiritual leader of the maraboutic Ideiboussat tribe, a memorised Quran — is family background and practice, which never count; Wikidata's single religion value is Sufism, and the English and Urdu articles file him among Mauritanian Sufis.{cite:source/wikipedia-mohamed-ould-ghazouani-en}{cite:source/wikidata-mohamed-ould-ghazouani} His faith is therefore entered as unknown, with both readings preserved in the record.

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