Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz

Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz Commander of the Bataillon de la Sécurité Présidentielle (Basep) along with the Gendarmerie Nationale head Gen...

Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz Commander of the Bataillon de la Sécurité Présidentielle (Basep) along with the Gendarmerie Nationale head Gen...

With little fuss and no shooting on 6 August General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz took power in Nouakchott overthrowing the elected President regarded as his protégé Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi (AC Vol 48 No 10)...

Under pressure Polisario Secretary General Mohamed Abdelaziz has recently defended the Sahrawi people’s right to resort to armed conflict to achieve a fully independent Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)...

Through his wife Abdallahi has close links with Colonel Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz the head of the Presidential Guard and an architect of the 2005 coup...

Saharan gambit Polisario Front leader and Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) President Mohamed Abdelaziz who has led the Saharawi independence movement for 30 years is looking for progress on a referendum in the former Spanish Sahara...

In December Algiers cut the knot persuading Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz not to insist on turning up...

Mohamed Abdelaziz Polisario's leader sees a UN-sponsored referendum as his best chance of becoming president of a real country and needs to raise the pressure to stop the voting plans losing momentum...

Diplomatic sources claimed that it was OAU Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim not Compaoré who invited Polisario/RASD President Mohamed Abdelaziz to the Ouagadougou summit...

Mohamed Abdelaziz President of the 'Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic' has told visitors that Rabat's insistence on padding voters' lists could lead Polisario back to armed struggle...