He was a member of his National Secretariat and considered one of the most important Sahrawi negotiators in the history of the independence movement.

[1] He was the son of Ahmed Uld Barical-la, a notable Saharawi who served in the Spanish administration of the General Government of the Sahara from a young age as an interpreter of the Djema'a, which represented the territory in the Cortes Españolas and one of the pioneering figures of the Sahrawi independence movement and older brother of the also diplomatic Hash Ahmed.

According to the official note of the Polisario Front on the occasion of his death, he joined the independence movement in 1973 and participated in the organization and sensitization of Saharawi students in Spain.

In March 2016, he was the host of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, during his visit to Bir Lehlu, in Western Sahara.

He died in the hospital of Cruces de Baracaldo of lung cancer, detected a few months before.