Aliyen Habib Kentaui حبيب علي الكنتاوي | |
Office: | POLISARIO Representative to Sweden |
Term Start: | 4 January 2012 |
Primeminister: | Abdelkader Taleb Omar |
Predecessor: | Brahim Mojtar |
Office1: | Sahrawi Ambassador to Nigeria |
Term Start1: | 11 September 2000 |
Term End1: | 25 July 2008 |
Primeminister1: | Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun Abdelkader Taleb Omar |
Successor1: | Oubi Buchraya Bachir |
Office2: | Sahrawi Ambassador to Ethiopia |
Term Start2: | February 1996 |
Term End2: | September 1999 |
Primeminister2: | Mahfoud Ali Beiba |
Successor2: | Mohamed Fadel Ismail Ould Es-Sweyih |
Birth Date: | 1954 |
Birth Place: | Smara, Spanish Sahara |
Residence: | Stockholm, |
Occupation: | Diplomat |
Party: | POLISARIO |
Aliyen Habib Kentaui (born 1954, in Smara, Western Sahara[1]) is the Polisario Front representative for Sweden.[2]
Prior to 1995, Kentaui was the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) ambassador for India for some years.[3] He was then appointed as SADR ambassador for Ethiopia and permanent representative to the Organization for African Unity[4] until 2000, when he was replaced by Mohamed Fadel Ismail Ould Es-Sweyih. That year he was accredited as SADR ambassador for Nigeria,[5] presenting his credentials to Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo in 2001.[6] He stayed in that post until 2008, after being elected as Wali (Governor) of the Wilaya of Ausserd, at the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria.[7] In January 2012, he replaced Brahim Mojtar as POLISARIO Representative for Sweden.[8]