Mohamed Wali Akeik | |
Office: | Chief of Staff of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army |
President: | Brahim Ghali |
Term Start: | 1 November 2021 |
Birth Place: | El Aaiún, Spanish Sahara, Spanish West Africa |
Party: | Polisario Front |
Children: | 8 |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Office1: | Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic |
Termstart1: | 4 February 2018 |
Termend1: | 13 January 2020 |
President1: | Brahim Ghali |
Predecessor1: | Abdelkader Taleb Omar |
Successor1: | Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun |
Mohamed Wali Akeik (ar|محمد الولي أعكيك; born 1950) is a Sahrawi politician and military officer currently serving as the Chief of Staff of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army. Akeik was appointed on 1 November 2021 by President Brahim Ghali.[1]
He formerly served as the Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic from February 2018 to January 2020, succeeding Abdelkader Taleb Omar, who had been serving as Prime minister since late 2003.[2] [3]
Wali Akeik was born in 1950 in El Aaiún, the capital of the territory then called Spanish Sahara.[4]
Wali Akeik is married and has eight children.[5]