Mohamed Salama Badi
{{Short description|Western Sahara politician and diplomatic}}
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محمد سلامة بادي
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|primeminister = Abdelkader Taleb Omar
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|birth_date = 1966
|birth_place = El Aaiun, Spanish Sahara
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{{Politics of SADR}}
Mohamed Salama Badi (born 1966 in El Aaiun, Western Sahara) is the current Sahrawi ambassador to Timor-Leste. He speaks Hassaniya (a variety of Arabic), and Spanish.
Personal life
He was an activist and syndicalist in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara during his youth. He graduated in Economics at Sétif university, in Algeria. He then moved to Spain to complete his education, earning a master's degree in "Conflicts, Peace and Development" at James I University in Castellon{{cite web|title= Máster en Estudios Internacionales de Paz, Conflictos y Desarrollo – Antiguos alumnos|url=http://www.epd.uji.es/web/es/master_antiguos_estudiantes.html|publisher=Cátedra UNESCO de Filosofía para la Paz – Universitat Jaume I|accessdate=3 November 2011|language=es}} and a doctorate at the University of Granada.{{cite news|title=Presidente reafirma apoio ao Saara Ocidental|url=http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/pt_pt/noticias/internacional/2010/5/23/Presidente-reafirma-apoio-Saara-Ocidental,0d88eae5-4e0f-48c4-80f7-223bf55b4706.html|publisher=ANGOP|date=7 June 2010|accessdate=14 October 2012|language=pt}}
Diplomatic postings
He started his diplomatic career during the 1990s, as the head of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic general delegation in Syria. Then, in the late 2000s, he joined the Pan-African Parliament in representation of his country.http://www.pan-african-parliament.org/Controls/Documents.aspx?DID=1062{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Pan-African Parliament Committee on Monetary and Financial Affairs Finally, in 2010 he replaced Mohamed Kamal Fadel as ambassador of the SADR to Timor-Leste.[http://www.presidencia.tl/09%20PPR%20EmbSADR_EN.checked.DOC President of the Republic confirms Timor-Leste's support during the presentation of credentials of the ambassador of Western Sahara]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Presidência da República – Press release.
Honours and awards
On 16 May 2012, Salama Badi was awarded with the Order of Timor-Leste by President of East Timor José Ramos-Horta.{{cite news|title=President of East Timor grants Order of Merit to Saharawi ambassador|url=http://www.spsrasd.info/en/content/president-east-timor-grants-order-merit-saharawi-ambassador|publisher=Sahara Press Service|date=17 May 2012|accessdate=18 May 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120914045104/http://www.spsrasd.info/en/content/president-east-timor-grants-order-merit-saharawi-ambassador|archivedate=14 September 2012}}
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| style="font-size:90%;"|Medal of the Order of Timor-Leste | style="width:8em; font-size:90%;"|{{flag|East Timor}} | align="center" style="width:10em; font-size:90%;"|16 May 2012 | align="center" style="font-size:90%;"|Dili | style="font-size:90%;"|East Timorese highest honour. |
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Category:Polisario Front politicians
Category:Sahrawi Sunni Muslims
Category:Ambassadors of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to Timor-Leste
Category:University of Granada alumni
Category:Ambassadors of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to Syria
Category:Members of the Pan-African Parliament from the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic