Ibrahim Halidi

Officially born in Adda Daoueni, he was actually born in Bandracouni, the village of his mother Naïme Mouchidra Moussa.^[1] He was born Djamil Halidi but was renamed Ibrahim Halidi in 1960^[2] when he lived in Ouani to receive treatment and attend school.

Ibrahim Halidi supervised the National Revolutionary Youth Committee and was the second most important person for Ali Soilihi's regime.^[3][4] When Ali Soilihi and his government resigned, Ibrahim Halidi became president for about a month.^[5][6] The revolutionary regime sentenced Ibrahim Halidi to death in 1977 at a trial in the Hotel Alamal.^[7][8]

After the May 1978 coup against Ali Soilihi, Ibrahim Halidi was imprisoned in Hombo and Patsy in Anjouan.^[9] He obtained his baccalaureate in 1978 and went to Togo to study philosophy and education at the University of Lomé. He returned to the Comoros in 1983 and taught philosophy at a secondary school in Fomboni (Moheli), then in Mutsamudu and Domoni (Anjouan).^[10]

After the 1990 presidential election, Ibrahim Halidi became Minister of the Interior,^[11] then Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sport. He founded the Union of Democrats for Development (UDD) party with Saïd El Anis Mohamed Djohar^[12] and Mohamed Dhakoine Abdou. After the general elections of 22 and 29 November 1992, Ibrahim Halidi became a member of parliament,^[13] before being appointed Prime Minister of the Comoros from January^[14] to May 1993.^[15][16]

Ibrahim Halidi stood in the presidential elections of March 1996.^[17] After this election, he became Minister of Public Health, Population and Social Affairs,^[18] then Minister of Transport, Tourism and Telecommunications.

After the dissolution of the Union of Democrats for Development (UDD), Ibrahim Halidi became secretary general^[19] and then president of another party, the Movement for the Comoros (MPC). In December 2002, he ran for president of the autonomous island of Anjouan and came second.^[20] In the presidential elections of April and May 2006, he also stood for election and came second.^[21]

He was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2017 in Tananarive. He underwent treatment in Madagascar, Mauritius and Tanzania. He died in Mamoudzou hospital in Mayotte on 23 February 2020.^[22]

He is the author of the book Comores. Unité dans la pluralité, published in 2021 by L'Harmattan.