In May 1972, he organized with El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed and Mahfoud Ali Beiba the first Sahrawi demonstrations in Tan-Tan, being later one of the participants on the Polisario Front founding congress in Zouerate, on 10 May 1973.

From July 1973 to November 1974, he was part of POLISARIO's Information Committee, in charge of the Spanish version of the magazine "May 20".

In 1975, he was jailed by Idi Amin in Kampala with Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed and Habib Boukhreis, when they tried to represent the Polisario Front at an Organisation of African Unity Foreign Affairs ministers summit at the Ugandan capital.

In April 1977, he was appointed as the first Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) ambassador to Angola, also Polisario Front Representative for Southern Africa.

In February 1987, he was appointed as SADR ambassador to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, staying in that post until June 1989.