Akeik was an early member of the
Movement for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Wadi el Dhahab. He was a founding member of the
Sahrawi People's Liberation Army in El Aaiun in 1973, and was governor and commander of the army in the region. He was wounded in fighting and arrested for one year after participating in an attack on a
Bou Craa phosphate conveyor belt in on 20 October 1974. Akeik was Minister for the Moroccan Occupied Territories of Western Sahara and the Sahrawi Diaspora and a member of the National Secretariat of the
Polisario Front. He holds the rank of
major general in the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army. President
Brahim Ghali appointed Akeik to replace
Abdelkader Taleb Omar as prime minister on 5 February 2018. He was appointed as chief of staff of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army by Ghali on 1 November 2021, amid a reshuffling of the military leadership. ==Personal life==