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Mokhtar Daddah died a penniless president

Mokhtar Ould Daddah

He has a street named after him in Nairobi. Moktar Daddah Street links Moi Avenue at Ufundi Plaza to Loita Street.

Mokhtar Ould Daddah was the founding president of Mauritania and ruled the country from 1961 to 1978. Daddah, also the first to attain higher education in his country, was so honoured at the height of the pan-African movement that swept Africa in the 1960s and of which Jomo Kenyatta was part.

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