Abdelkader Taleb Oumar عبد القادر طالب عمر
Prime Minister of Western Sahara
Incumbent
Assumed office  29 October 2003
President	Mohamed Abdelaziz
Preceded by	Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun
Political party	POLISARIO

Abdelkader Taleb Oumar (Arabic: عبد القادر طالب عمر‎, ʿAbd āl-Qādar Ṭāleb ʿOmar) is the current Prime Minister of the self-declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), in the framework of the government-in-exile proclaimed by the Polisario Front. He was named to that post by SADR president Mohamed Abdelaziz, following the XI General Popular Congress held in Tifariti on October 29, 2003.

Oumar is a Polisario Front veteran who has lived in exile in Tindouf, Algeria since 1975. He has held ministerial posts in several previous governments, served as speaker of the Sahrawi National Council (the exile parliament) in 1999–2003, and before that as wali, or mayor, of the Smara refugee camp in Tindouf.

[edit] External links

• Sahara Press Service
• South African–Saharan relations

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