Mauritania Ahmed Salem Ould Tekrour, a decade as the top power player in oil

摘要

A technical adviser since 2006 and thenrndirector of oil and gas since 2010 under arndozen oil ministers who came and went afterrnthe fall of former Mauritanian presidentrnMaaouyia Ould Taya in 2005, Ahmed SalemrnOuld Tekrour is undeniably the most powerfulrnfigure in this highly important governmentrndepartment. A member of the Oulad Bisbarntribe like current president Mohamed OuldrnAbdel Aziz, he joined the ministry in 2005rnwhen Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, from the samerntribe, seized power in a putsch in August ofrnthat year.