About Yahya Loud

Yahya Loud, who was born in the late seventies in the province of Kermisen in southern Mauritania, lived his childhood among the dunes and lakes of the state of Trarza, and there he received his educational beginnings. The features of his personality, vibrant with the spirit of struggle and yearning for justice and equality, were formed at an early age. The student struggle witnessed him through membership in the Union of Mauritanian Students at the University of Mosul in Iraq for a period of two years. Upon his return to Mauritania, he joined the opposition Democratic Forces Bloc party in 1998, and remained a coordinator of the Youth of Hope Movement under The party's umbrella for five years, and its firm belief in the people's need for the efforts of its youth in extracting freedoms and opposing dictatorial regimes. Ould Alloud was part of a cell supporting the Conscience and Resistance Movement for Three Years, which is a secret political movement opposing the regime of President “Muawiya Ould Sidi Ahmed Al-Taye” at the time.