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Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic administration

People, offices and institutional evidence across the available sources.

SADR institutions are presented separately. The African Union lists SADR as a member; the United Nations lists Western Sahara as a Non-Self-Governing Territory. This entry does not assert that SADR is the sole administration of the territory or determine territorial control.

18Source observations
4Institutional relationships

People and office observations

Each row is a source observation, not a unique person or a continuous term. Annual snapshots, research waves and dated events keep their own date precision. Initials appear where these datasets supply no portrait.

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Dated snapshot

Abdelkader Taleb Omar

Minister of Education and Vocational Training

11 Sept 2026

A source snapshot; it does not establish a start date, end date or current service.

Administration: SADR institutions

Role reported in dated official account; publication date is not a tenure boundary

Source spelling retained; no automatic identity merge

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 11 Sept 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 11 Sept 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: First paragraph; SPS interview participant

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Dated snapshot

Buchraya Hamoudi Beyoun

Prime Minister

5 Sept 2026

A source snapshot; it does not establish a start date, end date or current service.

Administration: SADR institutions

Role reported in dated official account; publication date is not a tenure boundary

Source spelling retained; no automatic identity merge

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 5 Sept 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 5 Sept 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: First paragraph; chairing government meeting

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Dated snapshot

Salama Ibrahim Al-Bashir

Secretary-General of the Government

5 Sept 2026

A source snapshot; it does not establish a start date, end date or current service.

Administration: SADR institutions

Role reported in dated official account; publication date is not a tenure boundary

Source spelling retained; no automatic identity merge

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 5 Sept 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 5 Sept 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: Third paragraph; statement attributed to officeholder

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Dated snapshot

Mohamed Yeslem Besset

Minister of Foreign Affairs and African Affairs

30 Aug 2026

A source snapshot; it does not establish a start date, end date or current service.

Administration: SADR institutions

Role reported in dated official account; publication date is not a tenure boundary

Source spelling retained; no automatic identity merge

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 30 Aug 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 30 Aug 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: First paragraph; officeholder described in summit account

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Dated snapshot

Lamine Baali

Permanent Representative to Ethiopia and the African Union

21 Aug 2026

A source snapshot; it does not establish a start date, end date or current service.

Administration: SADR institutions

Role reported in dated official account; publication date is not a tenure boundary

SADR representative, not an office in the receiving government

Source spelling retained; no automatic identity merge

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 21 Aug 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 21 Aug 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: First paragraph; received in this diplomatic capacity

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Dated snapshot

Aman Sidi Abdallah

Embassy Counsellor

21 Aug 2026

A source snapshot; it does not establish a start date, end date or current service.

Administration: SADR institutions

Role reported in dated official account; publication date is not a tenure boundary

SADR representative, not an office in the receiving government

Source spelling retained; no automatic identity merge

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 21 Aug 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 21 Aug 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: Closing paragraph; named attending embassy official

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Dated snapshot

Fatima Mahdi

Minister of Cooperation

20 Aug 2026

A source snapshot; it does not establish a start date, end date or current service.

Administration: SADR institutions

Role reported in dated official account; publication date is not a tenure boundary

Source spelling retained; no automatic identity merge

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 20 Aug 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 20 Aug 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: First paragraph; named officeholder

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Documented event

Adda Ibrahim Ahmeim

Minister of Public Health

20 Apr 2026

A dated source event; continued service is not established by this record.

Administration: SADR institutions

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 20 Apr 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 20 Apr 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: First paragraph; explicit assumption of duties today

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Dated snapshot

Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun

Prime Minister

20 Apr 2026

A source snapshot; it does not establish a start date, end date or current service.

Administration: SADR institutions

Source spelling retained; no automatic identity merge with other transliterations

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 20 Apr 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 20 Apr 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: Second paragraph; supervising officeholder

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Dated snapshot

Salama El Bashir

Secretary-General of the Government

20 Apr 2026

A source snapshot; it does not establish a start date, end date or current service.

Administration: SADR institutions

Source spelling retained; no automatic identity merge with other transliterations

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 20 Apr 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 20 Apr 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: Second paragraph; attending officeholder

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Documented event

Adda Ibrahim Ahmeim

Minister of Public Health

21 Mar 2026

A dated source event; continued service is not established by this record.

Administration: SADR institutions

Decree issue date; no separate effective or swearing-in date established

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 21 Mar 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 21 Mar 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: Appointment list, entry 1

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Documented event

Mohamed El Mami Tamek

Minister for the Occupied Territories and the Diaspora

21 Mar 2026

A dated source event; continued service is not established by this record.

Administration: SADR institutions

Decree issue date; no separate effective or swearing-in date established

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 21 Mar 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 21 Mar 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: Appointment list, entry 2

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Documented event

Salek Baba Hassan

Minister for Personnel, the Civil Service, and the Promotion of Public Administration

21 Mar 2026

A dated source event; continued service is not established by this record.

Administration: SADR institutions

Decree issue date; no separate effective or swearing-in date established

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 21 Mar 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 21 Mar 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: Appointment list, entry 3

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Documented event

Salek Laabid

Minister of Trade

21 Mar 2026

A dated source event; continued service is not established by this record.

Administration: SADR institutions

Decree issue date; no separate effective or swearing-in date established

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 21 Mar 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 21 Mar 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: Appointment list, entry 4

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Documented event

Ahmed Bechar Ammi Ammar

Minister of Water and Environment

21 Mar 2026

A dated source event; continued service is not established by this record.

Administration: SADR institutions

Decree issue date; no separate effective or swearing-in date established

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 21 Mar 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 21 Mar 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: Appointment list, entry 5

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Documented event

Salama Ibrahim Bashir

Secretary-General of the Government

21 Mar 2026

A dated source event; continued service is not established by this record.

Administration: SADR institutions

Decree issue date; no separate effective or swearing-in date established

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 21 Mar 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 21 Mar 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: Appointment list, entry 6

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Documented event

Badda Sidi Mohamed Abhia

Governor of the Political and Administrative Unit of Shaheed El Hafed

21 Mar 2026

A dated source event; continued service is not established by this record.

Administration: SADR institutions

Decree issue date; no separate effective or swearing-in date established

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 21 Mar 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 21 Mar 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: Appointment list, entry 7

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Dated snapshot

Brahim Ghali

President of the Republic

21 Mar 2026

A source snapshot; it does not establish a start date, end date or current service.

Administration: SADR institutions

Dates and source evidence

Observation: 21 Mar 2026. Precision: day.

Source published: 21 Mar 2026. Source updated: Date unknown.

Evidence location: First paragraph; issuing officeholder

Dataset: Africa API reviewed official government evidence (opens in a new tab) · Edition reviewed-2026-09-17

Attribution: Africa API review of public government office facts. Original issuing institutions, source URLs and evidence locators accompany each record. Source prose, images and logos retain their original rights; these are not licensed by this factual compilation.

Licence: Factual observations; no blanket source licence asserted

Retrieved 17 Sept 2026. Dataset publication: Date unknown.

  • A live official page can be stale; its retrieval date is not an appointment date or independent confirmation of current service.
  • Dated events retain their event types. Appointment, effective appointment and swearing-in are not interchangeable.
  • Relationships preserve accountability, appointment and reporting distinctions; no universal president-rooted hierarchy is asserted.
  • Missing names, exact dates, portraits and identity matches are not invented.

Portraits are not supplied with these source observations. Initials are used for identification.

Dataset limitations
  • Source observations are not continuous tenures or independently verified current rosters.
  • Names and source identifiers are not merged into people without separate identity evidence.
  • Jurisdiction labels describe source coverage and do not determine sovereignty or recognition.
  • Accountability, appointment and membership are different from reporting relationships.