Mohamed Ould Tolba was the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation

Foreign minister

A Minister of Foreign Affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister who helps form the foreign policy of a sovereign state. The foreign minister is often regarded as the most senior ministerial position below that of the head of government . It is often granted to the deputy prime minister in...

 of Mauritania

Mauritania

Mauritania is a country in the Maghreb and West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest...

 from 2002 to 2003.

Tolba was born in R'Kiz, in Trarza Region

Trarza

Trarza is a region in southwest Mauritania. Its capital is Rosso. Other major cities and towns include Mederdra and Boutilimit. The region borders the Mauritanian regions of Inchiri and Adrar to the north, Brakna to the east and Senegal to the south...

. He attended secondary school from 1974 to 1980 in Boutilimitt and Nouakchott

Nouakchott

-Government:The town was first divided into districts in 1973. First it was divided into four. From 1986, the city has been split into nine districts.* Arafat* Dar Naim* El Mina* Ksar* Riad* Sebkha* Tevragh-Zeina* Teyarett* Toujounine...

, and he subsequently studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. He was a secondary school teacher from 1984 to 1987 and worked at the Ministry of National Education from 1987 to 2002, being named Secretary-General of that ministry in March 2002. He was then appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation on October 27, 2002.