Mohamed Lemine Ould Guig ( ar, محمد الأمين ولد جيج; born July 1, 1959) is a Mauritanian academic and political figure. He was the 8th

Prime Minister of Mauritania This is a list of prime ministers of Mauritania since the formation of the post of Prime Minister of Mauritania in 1960 to the present day. A total of sixteen people have served as Prime Minister of Mauritania (not counting one Acting Prime Mi ...

from December 18, 1997 to November 16, 1998 (11 months). Guig was the Prime Minister between stints by

Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna ( ar, شيخ العافية ولد محمد خونة; born 1956) is a Mauritanian political figure. He was the 7th Prime Minister of Mauritania from January 2, 1996, to December 18, 1997, Minister of Foreign Affa ...

Biography

Guig was a native of

Oualata , settlement_type = Communes of Mauritania, Commune and town , image_skyline = Oualata 03.jpg , imagesize = 300px , image_caption = View of the town looking in a southeas ...

and trained as an attorney. He was a law professor at the

University of Nouakchott The University of Nouakchott Al Aasriya (french: Université de Nouakchott Al Aasriya, ar, جامعة نواكشوط) is a university in the city of Nouakchott , image_skyline = Nouakchott.jpg , image_caption = City ...

in the 1990s but was generally unknown in political circles. Guig served as director of higher education, and his region was considered a bastion of the presidential majority (PRDS). On December 18, 1997, he was appointed Prime Minister by President

Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya ( ar, معاوية ولد سيد أحمد الطايع, Ma‘āwiyah wuld Sīdi Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭāya‘ / Mu'awiya walad Sayyidi Ahmad Taya; born 28 November 1941) is a Mauritanian military officer who served as the P ...

shortly after his re-election in the 1997 presidential election. Guig replaced the civil servant

.Pazzanita 2008, p. 329. At the time of his appointment, Guig was 39 years old and the youngest Prime Minister of the world. Serving 11 months, Taya dismissed him as premier on November 16, 1998 and Khouna assumed his position. In 2003, Guig was appointed Commissioner for Food Security, to replace Sidi Mohamed Ould Biye. Following the 2008 coup d'état, Guig was appointed secretary general by coup leader

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz ( ar, محمد ولد عبد العزيز ''Muḥammad Wald 'Abd al-'Azīz''; born 20 December 1956) is a former Mauritanian politician who was the 8th List of heads of state of Mauritania, President of Mauritania, in of ...

. In 2014, Guig was appointed Chairman of the Commission of the

African Union The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September 1999, calling for the establishment of the Africa ...

to supervise the 2014 Egyptian presidential election, which resulted in the election of former General

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi; (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has served as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014. Before retiring as a general in the Egyptian mil ...

. On January 9, 2015, Guig was appointed State Inspector General and pledged to fight against mismanagement and misappropriation of public property. In June 2015 however, Guig was appointed Deputy General Secretary of the Arab League to manage financial affairs.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ould Guig, Mohamed Lemine Living people 1959 births Prime Ministers of Mauritania People from Hodh Ech Chargui Region