Mohamed Wali Akeik
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Mohamed Wali Akeik | |
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محمد الولي أعكيك | |
| Chief of Staff of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army | |
| Assumed office 1 November 2021 | |
| President | Brahim Ghali |
| Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | |
| In office 4 February 2018 – 13 January 2020 | |
| President | Brahim Ghali |
| Preceded by | Abdelkader Taleb Omar |
| Succeeded by | Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1950 (age 75–76) |
| Party | Polisario Front |
| Children | 8 |
Mohamed Wali Akeik (Arabic: محمد الولي أعكيك; born 1950) is a Sahrawi politician and military officer who has been the Chief of Staff of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army since 2021, and was Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic from 2018 to 2020. He has been active in the Western Sahara liberation movement since the 1970s when he joined the Movement for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Wadi el Dhahab and was a founding member of the SPLA.
Mohamed Wali Akeik was born in El Aaiun, Spanish Sahara, in 1950. He graduated from the Marshall Military Academy of Various Weapons.[1]
Career
Akeik was an early member of the Movement for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Wadi el Dhahab. He was a founding member of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army in El Aaiun in 1973, and was governor and commander of the army in the region. He was wounded in fighting and arrested for one year after participating in an attack on a Bou Craa phosphate conveyor belt in on 20 October 1974.[1]
Akeik was Minister for the Moroccan Occupied Territories of Western Sahara and the Sahrawi Diaspora and a member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front.[1] He holds the rank of major general in the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army.[2]
President Brahim Ghali appointed Akeik to replace Abdelkader Taleb Omar as prime minister on 5 February 2018.[3] He was appointed as chief of staff of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army by Ghali on 1 November 2021, amid a reshuffling of the military leadership.[4]
