Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour

Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour (born 1967) is a Mauritanian politician. Ould Mansour was a former president of the National Rally for Reform and Development party (Tewassoul) from 2007 to 2017.

Early life and education Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour was born in Nouakchott in 1967. He attended primary and secondary school in Nouakchott before going on to study at Mohammed V University in Morocco.

Politics Ould Mansour first became involved in politics through student unions and activism in the 1980s. In the early 1990s he helped found the Islamic Front, alongside a number of Islamic leaders. The group was denied an application to form a political party by the Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya's Government on the grounds that the party's main objective was seeking a monopoly on religion.

He was granted asylum from Belgium in 2003 due to the increasing clamp down by the Mauritanian Government on Islamist groups, however he returned to Mauritania in mid-2004. He helped found the Democratic Forum Party, The party was however denied legal status due to its Islamist links. Responding to questions over why the party fielded its own candidate instead of fielding a joint candidate with other parties, Mansour justified it on the grounds that the party had an "ambitious program".

In August 2023, Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour resigned and left the party Tewassoul.