^Robert E. Handloff. "Mauritania: Government". Mauritania: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1988. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2021-05-15. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2020-05-22. Daddah's ill-fated participation in the حرب الصحراء الغربية and the resulting ruin of the اقتصاد موريتانيا led to a انقلاب يوليو 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.