Yahya Ould Hademine (Arabic: يحيى ولد حدمين; born December 31, 1953) is a Mauritanian engineer and politician who served as Defense Minister of Mauritania.
[4] After moving to Canada in 1974, he earned a degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1979.
[5] After President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was reelected in June 2014, he appointed Yahya to the premiership on August 21.
[7] Yahya met with Chinese Special Envoy on the Middle East Issues Gong Xiaosheng on May 19, 2015, to discuss bilateral relations.
[8] He spoke at an agriculture conference in December 2015, and emphasized that his government fully supports the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)'s initiative to “expand wheat production in the country to enhance national food security and reduce dependence on increasing wheat imports.”[9] In June 2016, he caused controversy when he called Ahmed Baba Ould Azizi, President of the General Confederation of Employers of Mauritania, "a terrorist, worse than Al Qaeda and Daesh together.