{"id":34004,"date":"2026-10-14T15:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/?page_id=34004"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:23:23","slug":"mohamed-babana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/mohamed-babana","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Babana \u2013 Minister of Culture, Arts, Communication, and Relations with Parliament; Government Spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><strong>I. Personal and Social Status:<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34005 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MedBabana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"288\" \/><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Name: Mohamed Mohamed Abdallah Babana<br \/>\nDate and Place of Birth: August 16, 1975, in Barkeoul<br \/>\nMarital Status: Married, father of five children<br \/>\n<strong>Occupation: Attorney Profession: Lawyer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Second: Academic Qualifications:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>High School Diploma (Baccalaureate), Arabic Literature stream, Regular Session, 1994<br \/>\nFirst-Level Law Degree, June 1997 session<br \/>\nMaster\u2019s Degree in Law, Local Administration stream, October 1999<br \/>\nCertificate of Qualification to Practice Law, July 2005<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Third: Professional Experience:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\u2013 Lawyer admitted to practice before Mauritanian courts since 2005;<br \/>\n\u2013 Legal counsel to the charitable foundation affiliated with the National Company for Industry and Mines (SNIM) from 2006 to 2009;<br \/>\n\u2013 Provided legal services to the Mauritanian Financial Leasing Company from 2006 to 2008;<br \/>\n\u2013 Provided legal services to the Independent Port of Nouakchott from 2011 to 2018;<br \/>\n\u2013 Provided legal services to the Central Bank of Mauritania from 2014 to 2020;<br \/>\n\u2013 Legal counsel to the National Hydrocarbons Commission from 2017 to 2019;<br \/>\n\u2013 Member of the National Assembly (Mauritanian Parliament) representing the Barkeoul district for two parliamentary terms from 2006 to 2018;<br \/>\n\u2013 Member of the Bureau of the National Assembly from 2006 to 2013;<br \/>\n\u2013 Chair of the National Assembly\u2019s Committee on Justice, Interior Affairs, and Defense from 2014 to 2016<br \/>\n\u2013 Member of the Mauritanian-French Friendship Committee of the National Assembly from 2006 to 2013;<br \/>\n\u2013 Consul General of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 2019 to July 2023;<br \/>\n\u2013 Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to Libya from July 2023 until January 2025;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to the State of Qatar from January 2025 until his appointment as Minister of Culture, Arts, Communication, and Relations with Parliament, and as Government Spokesperson, on October 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Fourth: Languages:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Arabic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIOGRAPHY I. Personal and Social Status: Name: Mohamed Mohamed Abdallah Babana Date and Place of Birth: August 16, 1975, in Barkeoul Marital Status: Married, father of five children Occupation: Attorney Profession: Lawyer &nbsp; Second: Academic Qualifications: High School Diploma (Baccalaureate), Arabic Literature stream, Regular Session, 1994 First-Level Law Degree, June 1997 session Master\u2019s Degree in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34004","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34006,"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34004\/revisions\/34006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}