Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed ( ar, محمد لامين ولد أحمد; born 1947) is a
Sahrawi politician, writer and member of the
Polisario Front
The Polisario Front, Frente Polisario, Frelisario or simply Polisario, from the Spanish abbreviation of (Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro), (in ar, rtl=yes, الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير الس ...
.
Since January 2012, he is the Minister of Health of the
Sahrawi Republic.
Born in Smara and being one of the founding members of the
POLISARIO, Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed became the first
Prime Minister
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of the
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (; SADR; also romanized with Saharawi; ar, الجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية ' es, República Árabe Saharaui Democrática), also known as Western Sahara, is a ...
(SADR) in 1976, and held the post until 1982. He returned to office in 1985–88 and has been a member of the
National Secretariat of the Polisario
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since. According to
Amnesty International, 11 of his family members have been "
disappeared
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" by Moroccan security personnel for political reasons.
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by Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed
Prime Ministers of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Health ministers of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Sahrawi Sunni Muslims
Living people
People from Smara
Polisario Front politicians
1947 births
Sahrawi non-fiction writers
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