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 Decentralisation (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.

After the dissolution of the Union of Democrats for Decentralisation (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]

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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