Ali Abdullah Saleh
| Ali Abdullah Saleh | |
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| 1st President of Yemen* | |
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In office 22 May 1990 – 27 February 2012** |
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| Prime Minister |
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas Muhammad Said Al-Attar Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani Faraj Said Bin Ghanem Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani Abdul Qadir Bajamal Ali Muhammad Mujawar Mohammed Basindawa |
| Vice President |
Ali Salim Al-Beidh (Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Council) Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi |
| Preceded by | Himself as President of North Yemen Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas as President of South Yemen |
| Succeeded by | Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi |
| President of North Yemen | |
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In office 18 July 1978 – 22 May 1990 |
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| Prime Minister |
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani Abd al-Karim al-Iryani Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani |
| Vice President | Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi |
| Preceded by | Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi |
| Succeeded by | Himself as President of Yemen |
| Vice President of North Yemen | |
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In office 24 June 1978 – 18 July 1978 |
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| President | Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi |
| Preceded by | Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
21 March 1942 Sanhan, Yemen |
| Political party | General People's Congress (1982–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Asama Saleh |
| Children |
Ahmed Khaled Salah Sakhir Madeen Ridan |
| Religion | Islam |
| Military service | |
| Years of service | 1958–1978 |
| Rank | Field Marshal |
| Battles/wars |
North Yemen Civil War Yemeni Civil War (1994) Yemeni Revolution Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) |
| *Chairman of the Presidential Council until 1 October 1994 **Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi served as Acting President from 4 June 2011 – 23 September 2011 and again from 23 November 2011 – 27 February 2012. |
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Ali Abdullah Saleh Al-Sanhani Al-Humairi (Arabic: علي عبد الله صالح السنحاني الحميري, ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ Al-Sanḥānī Al-Ḥumairī; born 21 March 1942) is a Yemeni politician who was ousted as President of Yemen in 2012. Saleh previously served as President of North Yemen from 1978 until unification with South Yemen in 1990.
In February 2015, a panel of U.N. experts released a report alleging that during his time in power Saleh amassed a fortune worth between $30 billion and $62 billion. The report claims that the assets, including cash, gold, property and other commodities, are held under various names in at least 20 countries.
More recently, Saleh has openly allied with the Houthis (Ansar Allah), leading to the Yemeni Civil War, in which an insurgency succeeded in capturing Yemen's capital, Sana'a, causing President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi to flee the country.
Ali Abdullah Saleh was born on 21 March 1942 at Bait el-Ahmar village, from the Sanhan (سنحان) tribe, whose territories lie some 20 kilometres southeast of the capital, Sana'a.
Saleh's cousin, Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar from the Al Ahmar family of Sanhan is often confused with the same-named leading family of the Hashid tribe, with which the Sanhan tribe had allied. The Sanhan tribe belongs to the Himyar tribe. The Sanhan family is also related to the large Yemeni Khawlan tribe.
Saleh joined the North Yemeni Armed Forces in 1958 as an infantry soldier, and was admitted to the North Yemen Military Academy in 1960. Three years later, in 1963, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Armoured Corps. He participated in the Nasserist-inspired Army Coup of 1962, which was instrumental in the removal of King Muhammad al-Badr and the establishment of the Yemen Arab Republic. During the North Yemen Civil War he served in the Tank Corps, attaining the rank of Major by 1969. He received further training as a staff officer in the Higher Command and Staff Course in Iraq, between 1970 and 1971, and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He became a full Colonel in 1976 and was given command of a Mechanised Brigade. In 1977, the President of North Yemen, Ahmed bin Hussein al-Ghashmi, appointed him as military governor of Ta'izz.
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