Mahfoud Ali Beiba
| Mahfoud Ali Beiba Hammad Dueihi محفوظ علي بيبا حماد |
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| President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | |
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In office 10 June 1976 – 30 August 1976 |
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| Prime Minister | Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed |
| Preceded by | El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed |
| Succeeded by | Mohamed Abdelaziz |
| Prime Minister of Western Sahara | |
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In office 4 November 1982 – 18 December 1985 |
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In office 16 August 1988 – 18 September 1993 |
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In office 8 September 1995 – 10 February 1999 |
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| Minister for the Occupied Territories | |
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In office 1999–2005 |
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| Prime Minister |
Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun Abdelkader Taleb Omar |
| President of the Sahrawi National Council | |
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In office 2003 – 2 July 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Salem Lebsir |
| Succeeded by | Khatri Adduh |
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| Born | 1953 El Aaiún, Spanish Sahara, Spanish West Africa |
| Died | July 2, 2010 "27th February" Sahrawi refugee camps, Tindouf province, Algeria |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Political party | POLISARIO |
| Spouse(s) | Muieina Chejatu |
| Children | Chaiaa, Fala & Mahfuda |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Mahfoud Ali Beiba Hammad Dueihi (Arabic: محفوظ علي بيبا حماد; b. 1953 – July 2, 2010) was a Sahrawi politician and co-founder of the Polisario Front, a national liberation movement that seeks self-determination for Western Sahara. From 1975 until his death, he lived in exile in the refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria.
Ali Beiba was born in 1953 in El Aaiún, the capital of the territory then called Spanish Sahara. He studied in several Quranic schools, then the Primary and Secondary education at Spanish colonial schools, although he did not finish his studies because of family issues. As a child in El Aaiún, the Zemla Intifada occurred, in which an unknown number of Sahrawi civilians were killed by the Spanish Legion in a demonstration.
In 1972, after hearing about the Sahrawi nationalist demonstrations during the mussem (an event that is both religious festivity and cattle show) of Tan-Tan, he travelled to the former Spanish protectorate, being the nexus between the Sahrawi groups in Western Sahara and Southern Morocco. In the foundation of the POLISARIO, he was designated as the head of the El Aaiún delegation. He also joined the first cell of special operations within the POLISARIO.
In 1974, he was elected as head of the Political Affairs Committee, during the II General Popular Congress of the POLISARIO. He also accompanied El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, then POLISARIO General Secretary, to the first interview with the Sahrawi National Union Party General Secretary Khelli Henna Ould Rachid in Mauritania.
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