Career
Running as an independent, he placed fifth in the March 2007 presidential election, and he has been the President of the Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal (AJD/Magnetic Resonance) since August 2007. After studying in Cesti, Senegal, Sarr trained as a teacher before working in insurance. Increasingly active as a journalist, he appeared regularly on radio and television
Following this anti-racist publication, which highlighted racial and discriminatory practices by the Mauritanian government, many black leaders were arrested and thrown to jail.
Ibrahima Sarr was sentenced to four years in jail. He later left the APP. Sarr stood in the March 2007 presidential election on an anti-racist platform.
In order to facilitate his candidacy, he founded the "Movement for National Reconciliation", although he stood as an independent. Claiming that "I am the candidate of the oppressed", he called for equal rights for Pulaar, Soninké and Wolof people alongside Moors, and the return of Mauritanian refugees from Senegal.
Sarr came in fifth place with 7.95% of the vote in the election, and he backed Ahmed Ould Daddah for the second round.
Sarr"s Movement for National Reconciliation subsequently merged with the Alliance for Justice and Democracy (AJD), and at an extraordinary congress to ratify the merger on August 18–19, Sarr was elected as the leader of the new party, the AJD/Magnetic Resonance. Sarr said on May 10, 2008 that the AJD/Magnetic Resonance would not participate in the government of Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef due to policy differences. Following the August 2008 military coup, Sarr and the AJD/Magnetic Resonance expressed support for the military junta, and Sarr announced on April 11, 2009, that he would be a candidate in the controversial June 2009 presidential election, which was being organized by the junta and which opposition parties were planning to boycott. Sarr said that "the conditions are there for a free poll" and that Mauritania did not have democracy under Abdallahi"s presidency.
The Constitutional Court approved four candidacies, including Sarr"s, on April 28.
