Military Committee for National Recovery

{{Politics of Mauritania}} The '''Military Committee for National Recovery''' ({{langx|ar|المجلس العسكري للإنعاش الوطني}}; {{langx|fr|Comité Militaire de Redressement National}}, CMRN) was a short-lived military Government of Mauritania after the coup d'état that removed long-time President Moktar Ould Daddah on July 10, 1978, until a second coup on April 6, 1979.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Times |first=Jonathan Kandell;Special to The New York |date=1978-07-11 |title=Military Takes Over in Mauritania With a Reportedly Bloodless Coup |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/11/archives/military-takes-over-in-mauritania-with-a-reportedly-bloodless-coup.html |access-date=2023-09-28 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Koven |first=Ronald |date=1978-07-11 |title=Mauritanian President Overthrown in Military Coup |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/07/11/mauritanian-president-overthrown-in-military-coup/ba4387a3-4583-4c92-9ad4-bbf9cce386b9/ |access-date=2023-09-28 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

It was headed by Colonel Mustafa Ould Salek.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://countrystudies.us/mauritania/52.htm|title=Mauritania: Government|author=Robert E. Handloff|date=|accessdate=22 May 2020|publisher=Mauritania: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1988. |quote=Daddah's ill-fated participation in the Western Sahara War and the resulting ruin of the Mauritanian economy led to a military coup in July 1978. Daddah was detained and later exiled, and his government was replaced by the eighteen-member Military Committee for National Recovery (Comité Militaire de Redressement National—CMRN) with Lieutenant Colonel Mustapha Salek as president.}}</ref> It was followed by a second junta, the Military Committee for National Salvation (CMSN).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://africpost.com/lhistoire-politique-de-la-mauritanie/|title=L'histoire politique de la Mauritanie|author=|date=|publisher=Africpost|accessdate=22 May 2020}}</ref>

== See also == * Military Committee for National Salvation (CMSN) – Military Government in 1979–1992. * Military Council for Justice and Democracy (CMJD) – Military government in 2005–2007. * High Council of State (HCE) – Military government in 2008–2009.

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Category:Political history of Mauritania Category:Government of Mauritania Mauritania Category:1978 in Mauritania