Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed | |
Office: | Minister of Health |
Term Start: | 2 January 2012 |
Office2: | Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic |
Term Start2: | 5 March 1976 |
Term End2: | 4 November 1982 |
Predecessor2: | Office Established |
Successor2: | Mahfoud Ali Beiba |
Term Start3: | 18 December 1985 |
Term End3: | 16 August 1988 |
Predecessor3: | Mahfoud Ali Beiba |
Successor3: | Mahfoud Ali Beiba |
Office4: | President of the Sahrawi National Council |
Term Start4: | 1991 |
Term End4: | 1999 |
Office5: | Minister of Transportation |
Term Start5: | 18 September 1999 |
Term End5: | 29 October 2003 |
Office6: | Minister of Interior |
Term Start6: | 30 October 2003 |
Term End6: | 2007 |
Birth Date: | 1947 |
Birth Place: | Smara, Spanish Sahara, Spanish West Africa |
Parents: | Moulay Ahmed Ould Mohamed el-Hassan Leili (father), Nouna Mint Abdellahi (mother) |
Party: | POLISARIO |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed (ar|محمد لامين ولد أحمد; born 1947) is a Sahrawi politician, writer and member of the Polisario Front.
Since January 2012, he is the Minister of Health of the Sahrawi Republic.
Born in Smara[1] and being one of the founding members of the POLISARIO, Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed became the first Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (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 since. According to Amnesty International, 11 of his family members have been "disappeared" by Moroccan security personnel for political reasons.[2]