Ahmed Ould Bouceif

{{Short description|Mauritanian military officer and politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = Lieutenant colonel

| name = Ahmed Ould Bouceif

| native_name = {{nobold|أحمد ولد بوسيف}}

| native_name_lang = ar

| image =

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| caption =

| office = Prime Minister of Mauritania

| term_start = 6 April 1979

| term_end = 27 May 1979

| president = Mustafa Ould Salek

| predecessor = Office reestablished (Moktar Ould Daddah prior to abolition in 1961)

| successor = Ahmed Salim Ould Sidi

| birth_date = {{Birth year|1934}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1979|5|27|1934|df=yes}}

| death_place = Off the coast of Dakar, Senegal

| battles = Western Sahara War

}}

Lt. Col. Ahmed Ould Bouceif ({{langx|ar|أحمد ولد بوسيف}}, 1934 – 27 May 1979) was a Mauritanian military officer and political leader. On April 6, 1979, he seized power in a coup d'état together with Col. Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah and other officers, ousting Col. Mustafa Ould Salek from real power, however kept in his symbolic position with no real power until June 3, 1979.

He became the 2nd Prime Minister of Mauritania in the new government. He died the following month when a DHC-5 Buffalo airplane of the Air Force,{{Cite web |title=Accident de Havilland Canada DHC-5D Buffalo 5T-MAX, Sunday 27 May 1979 |url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/328597 |access-date=21 August 2024 |website=asn.flightsafety.org}} crashed off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, at which point Haidallah emerged as the regime's main strongman.{{Cite web |last=Handloff |first=Robert Earl. |last2=Library of Congress. Federal Research Division. |date=1990 |title=Mauritania : a country study |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/89600361/ |access-date=8 July 2023 |website=Library of Congress |page=33 |publication-place=Washington, D.C.}}{{Cite news |date=28 May 1979 |title=MAURITANIA PREMIER DIES IN PLANE CRASH (Published 1979) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/28/archives/mauritania-premier-dies-in-plane-crash-bousseif-down-in-sea-off.html |access-date=31 January 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=3 June 1979 |title=The Death of Mauritania's Prime Minister Last Week Added Uncertainty (Published 1979) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/03/archives/war-clouds-hover-over-the-sahara.html |access-date=31 January 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}