Brahim Gali

Brahim Gali is the current Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ambassador to Algeria, with a base in Algiers. He is an historic figure of the Sahrawi people struggle for selfdetermination, who had participated in the creation of the Movement for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Wadi el Dhahab, the 1970 Zemla Intifada, the foundation of the Polisario Front in 1973 and the Sahrawi Republic in 1976, the Western Sahara War or the UN sponsored negotiations with the Kingdom of Morocco.

Born in Smara, Spanish Sahara onSeptember 1949 , Gali joined the Spanishled Nomadic troops in the late 1960s, being destined to Smara for administrative works. After several meetings with Mohamed Bassiri and other Sahrawis, they decided to create the AOLS in 1969, with Gali being the affiliation secretary of the organization. He participated in the AOLS demonstration held in El Aaiun on June 16, 1970, which passed to be known as the Zemla Intifada. Detained that same night by Spanish soldiers, he was sentenced to one year in prison for his political activities. He was freed in 1971, but was briefly detained again in 1972 for taking part in demonstrations. In 1973, he was one of the founders of the Polisario Front, and was elected as the first General Secretary of the movement on its constitutive congress. Alongside El Uali Mustapha Sayed, Gali led the ElKhanga raid, the first military action of the POLISARIO against a desert post of the Spanish Army, overrunning the position and ga

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