He received 74 % of the vote, the other 26 % going to opposition candidate Moussa Ahmed Idriss, of the Unified Djiboutian Opposition ( ODU ).

* In the 2012 Egyptian presidential election the two candidates who qualified for the runoff election, Freedom and Justice Party candidate Mohamed Morsi ( 24. 8 %) and Independent candidate Ahmed Shafik ( 23. 7 %), each received more votes than any other candidate, but they failed to get enough votes to prove that each winning candidate was actually more popular than the Dignity Party candidate Hamdeen Sabahi ( 20. 7 %), Independent candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh ( 17. 5 %), or Independent candidate Amr Moussa ( 11. 1 %).

As the joint candidate of the RPP and moderate wing of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ), Guelleh won the presidential election held on April 9, 1999 with 74 % of the vote, defeating his only challenger, the independent candidate Moussa Ahmed Idriss.

Proponents of language reform in Egypt included Qasim Amin, who also wrote the first Egyptian feminist treatise, former President of the Egyptian University, Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, and noted intellectual Salama Moussa.

Among those who set the intellectual tone of a newly independent Egypt, in addition to Muhammad Abduh and Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, were Qasim Amin, Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Taha Hussein, Abbas el -' Akkad, Tawfiq el-Hakeem, and Salama Moussa.

Moussa Ahmed Idriss, an independent backed by opposition parties, won 25. 9 % of the vote.

The tomb of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum was discovered by Egyptologist Ahmed Moussa in the necropolis at Saqqara, Egypt in 1964, during the excavation of the causeway for the pyramid of King Unas.

He remained Prime Minister for one year until President Idriss Déby appointed Moussa Faki to replace him in June 2003.

* Idriss Ndele Moussa 2009-present

He became Prime Minister on February 3, 2005, when he was appointed by President Idriss Déby following the resignation of Moussa Faki.

In a joint diplomatic mission with the United Kingdom's MI6 head of counter terrorism Sir Mark Allen, the pair engaged with Libya's secret service head ( Moussa Koussa, who later deflected to UK ), which resulted in an end of support for terrorist activity by Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi ’ s Libya, and a resultant end of international sanctions against Libya.

A week later, Lille clinched the Ligue 1 championship by drawing 2 – 2 away to Paris Saint-Germain, Debuchy providing the cross from which Moussa Sow netted Lille's second goal.

The French Benedictine monks of the Keur Moussa Abbey ( Senegal ), who possibly were the first to introduce guitar machine heads instead of leather rings in the late seventies, conceived a method based on scores to teach the instrument.

According to the self-styled " Algerian Committee of Free Activists for Human Dignity and the Rights of Man ", which says its claims are based on witnesses ' testimony, 173 corpses were found in the forest of El Marsa near Ténès ( eastern Algeria ) on May 4, 1994 of people kidnapped by the security services and / or the pro-government paramilitary Organisation of Young Free Algerians ( OJAL ) in the villages of Taougrit, Ouled Boudoua, Sidi Moussa and Tala Aïssa following the killing of 16 soldiers by Islamist guerrillas in an ambush nearby on April 25.

For Intervista, produced by Ibrahim Moussa and RAI Television, Fellini intercut memories of the first time he visited Cinecittà in 1939 with present-day footage of himself at work on a screen adaptation of Franz Kafka ’ s Amerika.

This statement, read by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara on behalf of a group called National Council for Democracy, said that " the government and the institutions of the Republic have been dissolved ".

Captain Moussa ( Dadis ) Camara told Radio France International on 28 September the shootings by members of his presidential guard were beyond his control.

Nowadays, kora scores are written on a single G clef, following the Keur Moussa notation system.

That afternoon, Lieutenant Colonel Amadou Toumani Touré announced on the radio that he had arrested the dictatorial president, Moussa Traoré.

The Kankou Moussa river ferry on the Niger river at Korioume, 2008

The major Egyptian influence on Mahfouz's thoughts of science and socialism in the 1930s was Salama Moussa, the Fabian intellectual.

However, athlete Said Moussa Osman, who represented Ethiopia in the 800 m at the 1960 Olympics, stated that Wolde lost at the trials and didn't make it on the team.

He was born on 3 October 1936 in Cairo, Egypt, the son of former parliamentarian Muhammad Moussa.

Amr Moussa announced that he would be running as a presidential candidate on 1 March 2011.

On 15 May 2001, Moussa was selected as Secretary General of the League of Arab States and took office on 1 June 2001.

On 15 May 2011, Nabil Elaraby was elected as Secretary General of the Arab League and succeeded Moussa on 1 June 2011.

He then became Minister of Information and Telecommunications in the government named on June 28, 1979 and Minister of the Plan in the government named on August 2, 1980 ; in the latter position, he became the second ranking person in the government after Moussa Traoré, who was President and Minister of Defense.

Moussa Hojeij is a Lebanese football player, born on August 6, 1974.

The PRC claimed responsibility for the assassination of Moussa Arafat on September 7, 2005.

Their first victory was against New Hampshire Phantoms at home, a scrappy 1-0 affair settled by an 84th minute strike from Moussa Sy ; the high point of the season was the see-saw 3-2 win over Wilmington on the final day of the season, but it all too little too late for the Rough Riders.

Lounes Matoub was born on 24 January 1956 in the village of Taourirt Moussa in Algerian Kabylia.

On the first day of Ramadan, at about 6: 15 pm, assailants, armed with axes and knives, swept down on four farming villages in the Ammi Moussa area, and killed hundreds of people as they sat down to break their fast:

The visit by Moussa was the first by an official of the Arab League since the election of Hamas in 2007.

The official El-Ghad Party, headed by Moussa Moustafa Moussa, was running the Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011 – 2012 as an independent list.

The removal of Nour from the party leadership by Moussa, and the latter's election to the Egyptian Upper House, have been seen as compliances with the Hosni Mubarak regime.

And while Arab League head Amr Moussa declared that Syrian president Assad promised him a phased withdrawal over a two year period, the Syrian Information Minister Mahdi Dakhlallah said Mr Moussa had misunderstood the Syrian leader.

In 1906, according to the Guide to Lebanon by Ibrahim Beik Al-Soud, the population of Jounieh was 2, 400, and it had a silk factory owned by the Nasras, a silkworms choker owned by Moussa de Franj, a silk factory owned by the heirs of Rizkallah and Abdul Ahad Khadra which had 190 wheels and produced 10, 000 cocoons, 330 domestic animals, and owned 80 carriages.

In Mali, President Moussa Traoré, a former military leader who had come to power in a 1968 military coup, was facing growing pressure over poverty, International Monetary Fund restrictions on government spending, drought, and 20 years of one-party rule.

The company was owned by Moussa Rayaleh Waberi ( Chairman ) ( 97. 3 %) and other investors ( 2. 7 %) and had 46 employees ( at March 2007 ).

The two presidents, Thomas Sankara and Moussa Traoré, also had strained relations for a while.

In May 2004 the journalist Salam Karam wrote an article in Svenska Dagbladet where he alleged that the mosque had deliberately mistranslated and / or left out controversial parts of the Arabic – Swedish translations of the sermons held in the mosque by Imam Hassan Moussa.