Mahfoud Ali Beiba Hammad Dueihi (Arabic: محفوظ علي بيبا حماد; 1952 – July 2, 2010[1]) was a Sahrawi politician and co-founder of the Polisario Front, a national liberation movement that seeks self-determination for Western Sahara.
Beiba briefly served as the provisional POLISARIO's Secretary-General, the movement's top post, starting on June 10, 1976, as he had constitutionally succeeded the organization's first leader, El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, who had been killed in combat in Mauritania the day before.
[2] After about two months, the III General Popular Congress (GPC) was convened, and in the elections Beiba was replaced by long-standing Sahrawi president Mohamed Abdelaziz, who was last re-elected in 2011.
[5] On July 4, a bunch of Sahrawis went to Beiba's family house in El Aaiún to express their condolences and made a collective praying for the deceased.
Moroccan police intervened to avoid both the praying and more individuals to come to the house, making some people shouting slogans of support to the POLISARIO and the right of self-determination.
[11] On July 2, 2012 a promotion of the SPLA Special Forces named "Mahfud Ali Beiba" was graduated on a ceremony held at the Sahrawi refugee camps.