Mahfoud Ali Beiba

Mahfoud Ali Beiba Hammad Dueihi
محفوظ علي بيبا حماد
President of the Sahrawi Republic
Acting
In office
10 June 1976 – 30 August 1976
Prime MinisterMohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed
Preceded byEl-Ouali Mustapha Sayed
Succeeded byMohamed Abdelaziz
Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Republic
In office
4 November 1982 – 18 December 1985
In office
16 August 1988 – 18 September 1993
In office
8 September 1995 – 10 February 1999
Minister for the Occupied Territories
In office
1999–2005
Prime MinisterBouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun
Abdelkader Taleb Omar
President of the Sahrawi National Council
In office
11 January 1989 – 2 July 2010
Preceded bySalem Lebsir
Succeeded byKhatri Addouh
Personal details
Born1953
El Aaiún, Spanish Sahara, Spanish West Africa
Died2 July 2010(2010-07-02) (aged 56–57)
Sahrawi refugee camps, Tindouf province, Algeria
Cause of deathHeart attack
Political partyPOLISARIO
Spouse(s)Muieina Chejatu
ChildrenChaiaa, Fala & Mahfuda

Mahfoud Ali Beiba Hammad Dueihi (Arabic: محفوظ علي بيبا حماد; 1953 – 2 July 2010) was a Sahrawi politician and co-founder of the Polisario Front, a national liberation movement. From 1975 until his death, he lived in an exile in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria. He was the acting President of the Sahrawi Republic for two months in 1976.

On 2 July 2010, Beiba died from a heart attack at his home in Tindouf province, Algeria.

References

  1. ↑ Fallece el presidente del parlamento saharaui Archived 2010-07-29 at the Wayback Machine, Afrol News, July 5, 2010.
  2. ↑ "SADR declares national mourning for seven days following tragic death of President of National Council". Sahara Press Service. 2010-07-03. Retrieved 2010-07-03.[permanent dead link]