Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed

Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed ولد محمد لامين أحمد
File:Mohamed Lamin Ahmed.jpg Mohamed Lamin Uld Ahmed giving a speech at Mahfoud Ali Beiba's funeral. Sahrawi refugee camps, 4 July 2010
Minister of Health
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 January 2012
Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
In office 5 March 1976 – 4 November 1982
In office 18 December 1985 – 16 August 1988
President of the Sahrawi National Council
In office 1991–1999
Minister of Transportation
In office 18 September 1999 – 2003
Minister of Interior
In office 30 October 2003 – 2007
Personal details
Born	1947 Smara, Spanish Sahara, Spanish West Africa
Political party	POLISARIO
Parents	Moulay Ahmed ould Mohamed el-Hassan Leili (father), Nouna Mint Abdellahi (mother)
Religion	Sunni Islam
Ethnicity	Sahrawi

Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed (Arabic: ولد محمد لامين 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 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.

External links

• Souvenence (Recollections) by Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed (French)

References

Political offices
Preceded by None, inaugural holder	Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Republic 1976–1982	Succeeded by Mahfoud Ali Beiba
Preceded by Mahfoud Ali Beiba	Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Republic 1985–1988	Succeeded by Mahfoud Ali Beiba