Oubi Buchraya Bachir
{{Short description|Sahrawi diplomat}}
{{Update|date=August 2023}}
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|office = Sahrawi Ambassador to Nigeria
|term_start = 25 July 2008
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|primeminister = Abdelkader Taleb Omar
|predecessor = Aliyen Habib Kentaui
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|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
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|birth_date = 1970
|birth_place = Zouerate، Mouritania
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|residence = Abuja, {{NGA}}
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|alma_mater = University of Paris, France
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{{Politics of SADR}}
Oubi Buchraya Bachir (born 1970 in Zouirat, Mauritania) [http://www.cemaf.cnrs.fr/IMG/xls/DoctorantsCEMAfLabintel09-6.xls Liste des doctorants - Université Paris 1] {{in lang|fr}} is the current Sahrawi ambassador to Nigeria, with a base in Abuja.{{cite news|title=Western Sahara: Independence Will Come For Its Oppressed People|url=http://nigerianobservernews.com/10092011/features/features8.html|author=Michael Odigbe|publisher=Weekend Observer|date=September 10, 2011|accessdate=2012-03-23|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120713155527/http://nigerianobservernews.com/10092011/features/features8.html|archivedate=2012-07-13}} He earned a master's degree in "Conflicts, Peace and Development" at James I University in Castellón de la Plana.{{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=2011-11-03|language=es}} He speaks Hassaniya (a variety of Arabic), French and Spanish.
Diplomatic postings
He started his diplomatic career in 2001, being appointed as the Sahrawi representative for the Netherlands, based in The Hague.{{cite web|title=Polisario Front representation to the Netherlands - Press statement|url=http://www.arso.org/FPNL240302.htm|publisher=ARSO|date=2002-03-24|accessdate=2011-11-03}} In late 2003, he moved to London, as the Sahrawi representative to the United Kingdom and Ireland.{{cite news|title=Appointments|url=http://www.arso.org/01-e03-4547.htm|publisher=ARSO|date=2003-10-30|accessdate=2011-11-12}}
In 2006, he replaced Sadafa Mohamed Bahia as the Sahrawi ambassador to South Africa.{{cite web|title=Heads of diplomatic missions - Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary/High commissioners|url=http://www.dfa.gov.za/foreign/forrep/preced_alp080129.doc|publisher=Department of International Relations and Cooperation - South Africa|date=2008-01-25|accessdate=2011-11-04}} In July 2008, he replaced Aliyen Habib Kentaui, presenting this credentials as ambassador to Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.{{cite news|title=Nigeria committed to August 14 Bakassi handover-President Yar'Adua|url=http://www.nigeriafirst.org/article_8324.shtml|publisher=Nigeria First - Office of Public Communications - State House Abuja|date=2008-07-25|accessdate=2011-11-03|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415013532/http://www.nigeriafirst.org/article_8324.shtml|archivedate=2012-04-15}} Between 2010 and 2011 he acted first as special envoy{{cite news|title=Spain presses Morocco over Western Sahara deaths|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11746669|publisher=BBC|date=2011-11-12|accessdate=2012-03-24}} "Oubi Bachir, Sahrawi special envoy to Ghana, told the BBC that many in the camp were in urgent need of help." and then as non-resident ambassador to Ghana, until the accreditation in late 2011 of Mahayub Sidina, the first Sahrawi resident ambassador in Accra.
References
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Category:Polisario Front politicians
Category:University of Paris alumni
Category:Ambassadors of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to the United Kingdom
Category:Ambassadors of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to Ireland
Category:Ambassadors of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to Nigeria