Messaoud Ould Boulkheir (Arabic: مسعود ولد بو الخير; born 1943) is a political figure from Mauritania and a leader in the Haratine community.
[2] Messaoud Ould Boulkheir was born in 1943; the date is unclear because at that time the birth registration service was unknown.
Like most Haratine at that time, his family subsisted on agriculture, including cattle farming and picking fruit, while his father also hunted.
Messaoud's mother had taken care of the family until the older sister of her master married the Chief of the Ahel Taleb Community.
In contrast to what she thought, the queen of the community was jealous of her and was helping her cousins who ignored her when her family was in a difficult situation.
One night, the queen of the community sent her cousin to the Messaoud Ould Boulkheir family tent to destroy it and to beat her mother.
After surviving this event, Messaoud's mother went directly with her dress covered with blood, to the French colonial administration in Nema to complain.
The colonial administration asked for the restitution and reimbursement of all of the things the master's had destroyed and taken and to freed Messaoud's mother and her family.
The Ahel Taleb Ethmane family preferred to send one of their slave's sons who were Messaoud Ould Boulkheir.
[1] In 1960, Messaoud Ould Boulkheir was admitted and transferred to Atar a city populated by the Beydhan in majority.
In July 1960, Messaoud arrived at Atar; he met the commandant of the colonial administrator who was at that time French.
He also was transferred to Tichit in 1969 to 1970; Messaoud suffered difficulties because he was Haratine who was working in the Administrations run by the Beydhan who made things difficult for him because he was too young.
After a long fight for the right to have a good position, the Government sent him as a chief of district of Temessoumitt in the department of Moundjeria which was not very populated and was without water.
After being informed of the conflict between Messaoud and his boss, the government decided to transfer him to Ouadane in Adrar in the desert.
After the results of the competition, Messaoud was promoted Assistant of the Governor of Nouakchott in charge of administrative cases.
Messaoud ended by creating the People's Progressive Alliance (APP), his current political party.
[7] On January 20, 2007, following the ouster of President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in the August 2005 military coup d'état,[8] Boulkheir announced his candidacy in the March 2007 presidential election.
[18] In October 2008, Boulkheir called for a solution to the situation that would involve Abdallahi returning to the Presidency for only the limited period necessary to organize an early Presidential election.
[20][21] On April 8, 2009, Boulkheir participated in an FNDD protest in Nouakchott against the planned June 2009 presidential election, denouncing the "unilateral electoral agenda of the putschists" and warning that "neither tanks, nor guns nor live bullets can stop our fight against the usurpation of power by force".