Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Office: | Sahrawi Ambassador to Nigeria |
Term Start: | 25 July 2008 |
Primeminister: | Abdelkader Taleb Omar |
Predecessor: | Aliyen Habib Kentaui |
Office1: | Sahrawi Ambassador to South Africa |
Term Start1: | 19 April 2006 |
Term End1: | 10 February 2008 |
Predecessor1: | Sadafa Mohamed Bahia |
Successor1: | Salah Abd Mohamed |
Office2: | Polisario Front Representative to Great Britain |
Term Start2: | 30 October 2003 |
Term End2: | 2006 |
Primeminister2: | Abdelkader Taleb Omar |
Predecessor2: | Breika Lehbib |
Successor2: | Sidi Mohamed Omar |
Office3: | Polisario Front Representative to the Netherlands |
Term Start3: | 2001 |
Term End3: | 30 October 2003 |
Primeminister3: | Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun |
Oubi Buchraya Bachir | |
Birth Date: | 1970 |
Birth Place: | Zouerate، Mouritania |
Residence: | Abuja, |
Alma Mater: | University of Paris, France |
Occupation: | Diplomat |
Party: | POLISARIO |
Oubi Buchraya Bachir (born 1970 in Zouirat, Mauritania) [1] is the current Sahrawi ambassador to Nigeria, with a base in Abuja.[2] He earned a master's degree in "Conflicts, Peace and Development" at James I University in Castellón de la Plana.[3] He speaks Hassaniya (a variety of Arabic), French and Spanish.
He started his diplomatic career in 2001, being appointed as the Sahrawi representative for the Netherlands, based in The Hague.[4] In late 2003, he moved to London, as the Sahrawi representative to the United Kingdom and Ireland.[5]
In 2006, he replaced Sadafa Mohamed Bahia as the Sahrawi ambassador to South Africa.[6] In July 2008, he replaced Aliyen Habib Kentaui, presenting this credentials as ambassador to Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.[7] Between 2010 and 2011 he acted first as special envoy[8] and then as non-resident ambassador to Ghana, until the accreditation in late 2011 of Mahayub Sidina, the first Sahrawi resident ambassador in Accra.