Abdelkader Taleb Omar

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Abdelkader Taleb Omar
عبد القادر طالب عمر
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Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Republic
Assumed office
29 October 2003
President Mohamed Abdelaziz
Preceded by Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun
Personal details
Born 1951 (age 72–73)
Political party Polisario Front
Religion Sunni Islam

Abdelkader Taleb Omar (Arabic: عبد القادر طالب عمر‎‎, ʿAbd āl-Qādar Ṭāleb ʿOmar; b. 1951) is the Prime Minister of the 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, in the framework of the XI General Popular Congress held in Tifariti on October 29, 2003,[1] and re-appointed again to that post in early 2012.[2]

Omar is a Polisario Front veteran who has lived in exile in the Tindouf province, Algeria since 1975. He has held several ministerial posts in previous governments, served as speaker of the Sahrawi National Council (the exile parliament) in the 1995-1998,[2] and also as Wali (Governor) of the Smara refugee camp, near Tindouf.[3]

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Political offices
Preceded by Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Republic
2003–present
Incumbent

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