Ibrahim Halidi

Ibrahim Halidi (Arabic: إبراهيم هاليدي) (1954 – February 23, 2020) or officially Halidi Abderemane Ibrahim is a long-serving Comorian politician, philosophy teacher and writer.

Biography

Officially born in Adda Daoueni, he was actually born in Bandracouni, the village of his mother Naïme Mouchidra Moussa.[1] He was born Djamil Halidi but was renamed Ibrahim Halidi in 1960[2] when he lived in Ouani to receive treatment and attend school.

Ibrahim Halidi supervised the National Revolutionary Youth Committee and was the second most important person for Ali Soilihi's regime.[3][4] When Ali Soilihi and his government resigned, Ibrahim Halidi became president for about a month.[5][6] The revolutionary regime sentenced Ibrahim Halidi to death in 1977 at a trial in the Hotel Alamal.[7][8]

After the May 1978 coup against Ali Soilihi, Ibrahim Halidi was imprisoned in Hombo and Patsy in Anjouan.[9] He obtained his baccalaureate in 1978 and went to Togo to study philosophy and education at the University of Lomé. He returned to the Comoros in 1983 and taught philosophy at a secondary school in Fomboni (Moheli), then in Mutsamudu and Domoni (Anjouan).[10]

After the 1990 presidential election, Ibrahim Halidi became Minister of the Interior,[11] then Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sport. He founded the Union of Democrats for Development (UDD) party with Saïd El Anis Mohamed Djohar[12] and Mohamed Dhakoine Abdou. After the general elections of 22 and 29 November 1992, Ibrahim Halidi became a member of parliament,[13] before being appointed Prime Minister of the Comoros from January[14] to May 1993.[15][16]

Ibrahim Halidi stood in the presidential elections of March 1996.[17] After this election, he became Minister of Public Health, Population and Social Affairs,[18] then Minister of Transport, Tourism and Telecommunications.

Halidi en Afrique du sud

After the dissolution of the Union of Democrats for Development (UDD), Ibrahim Halidi became secretary general[19] and then president of another party, the Movement for the Comoros (MPC). In December 2002, he ran for president of the autonomous island of Anjouan and came second.[20] In the presidential elections of April and May 2006, he also stood for election and came second.[21]

Anis Djohar et Ibrahim Halidi

He was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2017 in Tananarive. He underwent treatment in Madagascar, Mauritius and Tanzania. He died in Mamoudzou hospital in Mayotte on 23 February 2020.[22]

He is the author of the book Comores. Unité dans la pluralité, published in 2021 by L'Harmattan.

References

  1. ^ Ibrahim Halidi Abderemane, 2021. Les Comores. Unité dans la pluralité, Paris, L’Harmattan, p. 55
  2. ^ Ibrahim Halidi Abderemane, 2021. Les Comores. Unité dans la pluralité, Paris, L’Harmattan, p. 64.
  3. ^ L. Bellétan, 2022. « Ibrahim Halidi, mémoire d’un révolutionnaire », Masiwa, 10 mai 2022
  4. ^ Ibrahim Halidi Abderemane, 2021. Les Comores. Unité dans la pluralité, Paris, L’Harmattan, p. 85.
  5. ^ L. Bellétan, 2022. « Ibrahim Halidi, mémoire d’un révolutionnaire », Masiwa, 10 mai 2022
  6. ^ Ibrahim Halidi Abderemane, 2021. Les Comores. Unité dans la pluralité, Paris, L’Harmattan, p. 87.
  7. ^ Ibrahim Halidi Abderemane, 2021. « Lettre au défunt président camarade Ali Soilihi» in Les Comores. Unité dans la pluralité, Paris, L’Harmattan, p. 31 et 32
  8. ^ L. Bellétan, 2022. « Ibrahim Halidi, mémoire d’un révolutionnaire », Masiwa, 10 mai 2022
  9. ^ Ibrahim Halidi Abderemane, 2021. « Lettre au défunt président camarade Ali Soilihi» in Les Comores. Unité dans la pluralité, Paris, L’Harmattan, p. 30.
  10. ^ Mohamed Dhakoine Abdou, 2021. « Préface : À Ibrahim, l’éternel incompris » in Ibrahim Halidi Abderemane, 2021. Les Comores. Unité dans la pluralité, Paris, L’Harmattan, p. 8.
  11. ^ Perri, Pascal, 1994. Comores. Les nouveaux mercenaires, Paris, L’Harmattan, p. 152.
  12. ^ Pétan Mognihazi, « Union des Démocrates pour la Décentralisation : Pour une rupture avec les traditions qui entravent le développement », Al-Watwan n°189 du 20 au 26 décembre 1991.
  13. ^ African Elections Database : Elections in the Comoros
  14. ^ Journal officiel de la République fédérale Islamique des Comores, n°1, janvier 1993.
  15. ^ Le Monde, 23 mai 1993. « Comores : le huitième gouvernement du président Djohar est tombé »
  16. ^ Vérin, Pierre, 1994. Les Comores, Paris, Karthala, p. 230 et 231.
  17. ^ Saïd Mahamoudou, 1997. « Les Comores et la démocratie », Politique africaine, n°67, in La France et les migrants africains, pp. 122-129.
  18. ^ « Comores », Actualité africaine : Océan indien, Marchés tropicaux et méditerranéens, Vol. 51, n°2629-2642, 1996, p.706.
  19. ^ Africa Intelligence, « Comoros islands: Hilali sets up new party», 29/11/1997.
  20. ^ Ibrahim Halidi Abderemane, 2021. Les Comores. Unité dans la pluralité, Paris, L’Harmattan, p. 134.
  21. ^ BBC News, 14 April 2006: Q&A: Comoros elections
  22. ^ Décès en France : M. HALIDI ABDEREMANE Ibrahim
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