Mohamed Ould Bilal

16th Prime Minister of Mauritania
محمد ولد بلال
Bilal in 2022
Prime Minister of MauritaniaIn office
6 August 2020 – 2 August 2024PresidentMohamed Ould GhazouaniPreceded byIsmail Ould Bedde Ould Cheikh SidiyaSucceeded byMokhtar Ould Djay Personal detailsBorn (1963-12-10) 10 December 1963 (age 60)
Rosso, MauritaniaPolitical partyEquity Party (El Insaf)ResidenceNouakchottCabinet

Mohamed Ould Bilal (Arabic: محمد ولد بلال; born 10 December 1963),[1] is a Mauritanian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Mauritania from 6 August 2020 to 2 August 2024.[2][3][4][5]

Career

Prime Minister

Prior to become the new Prime Minister, Mohamed Ould Bilal worked as the head of the National water agency.[6]

After an investigation on the activities of the former head of state Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, former Prime Minister Ismail Ould Bedda Ould Cheikh Sidiya and the entire Administration resigned.[7][8][9]

On 6 August 2020 Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani appointed Mohamed Ould Bilal as new Prime Minister and asked him to form a new government.[3]

References

  1. ^ "محمد ولد بلال.. مهندس المياه الذي كُلف بتشكيل الحكومة" (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  2. ^ "Veteran administrator Mohamed Ould Bilal named Mauritania's new PM". Reuters. 2020-08-06. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  3. ^ a b "Mohamed Ould Bilal named new Mauritania PM". TRT World. 2020-08-06. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  4. ^ "ولد بلال يقدم استقالة حكومته لولد الغزواني" [Ould Bilal submits the resignation of his government to Ould Ghazouani]. AlAkhbar.info (in Arabic). 2024-08-02. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  5. ^ "Nouakchott : Le Premier ministre Mohamed Ould Bilal présente démission de son gouvernement | MADAR" (in French). 2024-08-02. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
  6. ^ Kaushik, Devanshu. "Mohamed Ould Bilal becomes new Prime Minister of Mauritania". Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  7. ^ AfricaNews (2020-08-07). "Mauritanian Prime Minister replaced amid investigation into alleged corruption". Africanews. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  8. ^ "Mauritanie : le procès de l'ancien président plonge au cœur des affaires de corruption". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2023-04-11. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  9. ^ "Former Mauritanian president jailed, faces graft charges". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
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Preceded by Prime Minister of Mauritania
2020–2024 		Succeeded by
Mokhtar Ould Djay
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