Nida El Watan

Nida El Watan is a Bidhani supremacist political party in Mauritania.
The party was formed on 10 April 2015 by controversial political activist Daoud Ould Ahmed Aicha, with it being formally recognised by the Ministry of Interior on 13 October 2016.

Ideology

The party states its goal to be the establishment of a national state in Mauritania and to "consolidate the ancestral Arab Bidhani identity". The party defends the construction of a Mauritanian national identity based on the dominant Bidhani identity while considering the rest of ethnic groups of the country as protected national minorities, arguing that the lack of a stable national identity outlook in Mauritania, which has historically seen a competition between Arab nationalism and a more African-oriented identity as part of the country's politics, would risk the stability and unity of the country.
The party's leader is known for his controversial statements on ethnic politics in Mauritania, most notably on slavery, where Ould Ahmed Aicha stated his rejection to what he called "the blackmailing of certain groups within the country by those who trafficked in the issue of slavery". Ould Ahmed Aicha previously threatened to "return to the era of slave captivity, before the establishment of the Mauritanian state" and to "take his faction to arms".
The party heavily opposes the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement and its associated Refoundation for a Global Action party led by Biram Dah Abeid, considering it an "extremist" party.