Ibrahima Moctar Sarr

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Ibrahima Moctar Sarr (born 1949) is a Mauritanian journalist and politician.

After studying in Cesti, Senegal, Sarr trained as a teacher before working in insurance. He became politically active in 1972, being a founder member of the Mauritanian Workers Party. Increasingly active as a journalist, he appeared regularly on radio and television. In 1983 he was a founder of Flam, and in 1986 he published the Manifesto of the oppressed black Mauritanians. Following this anti-racist publication, which proved particularly controversial in the climate which later led to the Mauritania-Senegal Border War, he was jailed for four years.

Sarr stood in the March 2007 presidential election, on an anti-racist platform. In order to facilitate his candidacy, he founded the "Movement for National Reconciliation", although he stood as an independent. Claiming that "I am the candidate of the oppressed", he called for equal rights for Pulaar, Soninké and Wolof people alongside Moors, and the return of Mauritanian refugees from Senegal. Sarr came in fifth place with about 7.9% of the vote in the election,^[1] and he backed Ahmed Ould Daddah for the second round.^[2]