Mahfoud Ali Beiba

Mahfoud Ali Beiba
Mahfoud Laroussi Ali Beiba
محفوظ علي بيبا العروسي
President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
In office
10 June 1976 – 30 August 1976
Prime Minister Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed
Preceded by El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed
Succeeded by Mohamed Abdelaziz
Prime Minister of Western Sahara
In office
4 November 1982 – 18 December 1985
In office
16 August 1988 – 18 September 1993
In office
8 September 1995 – 10 February 1999
Personal details
Born 1953
El Aaiun, Spanish Sahara, Spanish West Africa
Died July 2, 2010(2010-07-02)
"27th February" Sahrawi refugee camps, Tindouf, Algeria
Political party POLISARIO
Spouse(s) Muieina Chejatu
Children three
Religion Sunni Islam
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Mahfoud Laroussi Ali Beiba (Arabic: محفوظ علي بيبا العروسي‎; b. 1953 - July 2, 2010[1]) was a Sahrawi nationalist politician and co-founder of the Polisario Front, an organisation that seeks independence for Western Sahara. From 1975 until his death, he lived in exile in the refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria.

In 1974, he was elected as head of the Political Affairs Committee, during the II General Popular Congress of the POLISARIO. Beiba briefly served as POLISARIO's Secretary-General, the movement's top post, starting on June 10, 1976. He had constitutionally succeeded the organization's first leader, El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, who had died in combat in Mauritania the day before.[2] After about two months, the III General Popular Congress (GPC) was convened, and in the elections Beiba was replaced by long-standing Sahrawi leader Mohamed Abdelaziz, who was last re-elected in 2007.

Following his service as Secretary-General, Beiba held several high-ranking posts in the Polisario structure and as a minister of the exile government of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), including as Prime Minister in 1982-85[3] and 1988-93. In 1995-99 he again served as Prime Minister but was forced out of office after the exile parliament, the Sahrawi National Council, brought his government down with a vote of no confidence. He was replaced by Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun, who appointed him to the post of minister for the occupied territories. From 2003, Beiba served as president and speaker of the SNC, and in this capacity he was also a member of Polisario's executive organ, the National Secretariat. Since 1997, he had been the head of the Sahrawi delegations on the successive negotiations with Morocco.[4]

On July 2, 2010, Beiba suffered a fatal heart attack at his home in the February 27th camp (Sahrawi refugee camps, Tindouf). The SADR presidency declared a week of national mourning in his memory.[5]

On July 11, Beiba was replaced by Kathri Aduh as president of the SNC.[6]

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