Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour

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Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour (born 1967) is a Mauritanian politician. He was the president of the National Rally for Reform and Development (Tewassoul) from 2007 to 2017 and left the party in August 2023.

Early life and education
- He was born in Nouakchott, Mauritania.
- He studied at Mohammed V University in Morocco and at the Advanced Institute for Islamic Studies and Research.

Political career
- In the 1980s, he became involved in politics through student unions and activism.
- In the early 1990s, he helped found the Islamic Front, a mid-level Islamist political group.
- The group was denied legal status, and he was arrested in 1994 as part of government actions against Islamist groups.
- He was elected Mayor of Arafat in 2001 and arrested again in 2003, then released.
- He helped found the Democratic Forum Party and served as its vice-president, but the party was not legally registered because of its Islamist links.
- He was elected to Parliament in 2006.
- He ran for president in the 2009 Mauritanian presidential election as Tewassoul’s candidate and finished fourth with about 4.8% of the vote.

Later developments
- In August 2023, he resigned from the Tewassoul party.