Abdallah Ibrahim

This article is about a Moroccan politician, for the South African composer see Abdullah Ibrahim

Abdallah Ibrahim

Moulay Abdallah Ibrahim ( Arabic عبد الله إبراهيم, DMG ʿAbd Allāh Ibrāhīm ; * August 24, 1918 in the province of Al Haouz ; † September 11, 2005 in Casablanca ) was the prime minister and foreign minister of Morocco from 1958 to 1960.

Early years

Abdallah Ibrahim studied at the Ibn Jussuf University in Marrakesh and the Paris Sorbonne. From 1944 to 1959 he was a member of the bourgeois nationalist Istiqlal Party (Independence Party) and worked from 1950-52 on the editorial staff of the Istiqlal organ "Al Alam", which is why he was imprisoned from 1952 to 1954.

Government and opposition

In the first national government of independent Morocco, Ibrahim was State Secretary (State Minister) for Information and Tourism from 1955–56, and then Minister for Labor and Social Affairs from 1956–57. In 1958 he was appointed Prime Minister and Foreign Minister by King Mohammed V.

Ibrahim endeavored to consolidate Morocco's sovereignty and develop the kingdom's economy. During his reign, the "open door" regime was abolished and Morocco's customs sovereignty was restored. In connection with the Ifni War , Morocco regained the Tarfaya region (southern Morocco) from Spain in 1958 .

Ibrahim's anti-imperialist national-democratic course and his overly independent course from France and the USA (efforts to dissolve the military bases, based on the Casablanca group ) led to the split in the Istiqlal party in January 1959 and to Ibrahim's dismissal on May 20, 1960 King, who initially took over the business of government himself before he died in 1961.

National Union of People's Forces

When the Istiqlal party split, Ibrahim joined the radical (left) wing led by Mahdi Ben Barka and Muhammad Basri , which formed the Union Nationale des Forces Populaires (UNFP). From 1959 to 1972 Ibrahim was General Secretary of the UNFP, which operated between the Istiqlal Party and the Communist Party.

literature

• The International Who's Who, page 712. London 1988
• Walter Markov, Alfred Anderle, Ernst Werner :: Small Encyclopedia World History , Volume 2. Pages 43 and 46. Leipzig 1979
• Lothar Rathmann : History of the Arabs , Volume 7 (The struggle for the development path in the Arab world), pages 421-30. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1983