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Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi

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Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
حسان حسين محمد السعيدي الجمهورية اليمنية
Hadi in 2013
2nd President of Yemen
In office
27 February 2012 – 7 April 2022
Prime MinisterAli Muhammad Mujawar
Mohammed Basindawa
Abdullah Mohsen al-Akwa (Acting)
Khaled Bahah
Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr
Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed
Vice PresidentKhaled Bahah
Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar
Preceded byAli Abdullah Saleh
Succeeded byRashad al-Alimi (as Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council)
Vice President of Yemen
In office
3 October 1994 – 27 February 2012
PresidentAli Abdullah Saleh
Prime MinisterAbdul Aziz Abdul Ghani
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani
Abdul Qadir Bajamal
Ali Muhammad Mujawar
Mohammed Basindawa
Preceded byAli Salem al Beidh
Succeeded byKhaled Bahah
Personal details
Born (1945-09-01) 1 September 1945 (age 79)
Al Wade'a District, Abyan, Aden Protectorate, Colony of Aden (now Yemen)
Political partyGeneral People's Congress
ReligionSunni Islam[1]
Military service
Allegiance South Arabia (1964–1967)
 South Yemen (1967–1990)
 Yemen (1990–1994)
Branch/service Armed Forces of Yemen
Years of service1964–1994
RankField Marshal
Battles/warsAden Emergency
South Yemen Civil War
Yemeni Civil War (1994)
Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
*Hadi's term has been disputed by Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, Saleh Ali al-Sammad, and Mahdi al-Mashat.

Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (ʿAbdrabbuh Manṣūr Hādī; Arabic: حسان حسين محمد السعيدي الجمهورية اليمنية  Yemeni pronunciation: [ˈʕæbdˈrɑb.bu mænˈsˤuːr ˈhæːdi]; born 1 September 1945) is a Yemeni politician. He was a Field Marshal of the Yemeni Armed Forces. He was Vice President from 1994 to 2012. He became the second President of Yemen on 27 February 2012.[2]

In 2022, Hadi resigned, in a sign for a push for peace with Saudi Arabia.[3][4]

References

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  1. "الصراع السني الشيعي يمتد الى صنعاء". Al-Quds Al-Arabi (in Arabic). 2013-07-22.
  2. Profile, bbc.co.uk; accessed 6 April 2015.
  3. Kolirin, Mostafa Salem,Lianne (2022-04-07). "Hopes of peace in Yemen as President hands power to new presidential council". CNN. Retrieved 2022-04-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. "War-ravaged Yemen gets a truce and dumps a tired president". The Economist. 2022-04-16. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2022-04-14.