Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar
Major General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar ( Arabic علي محسن الأحمر, DMG ʿAlī Muḥsin al-Aḥmar ) is Vice President of the Republic of Yemen.
Al-Ahmar is said to have good contacts with the Saudi Arabian royal family .
He is half-brother of the Yemenite President Ali Abdullah Saleh , whose life he saved during an assassination attempt in 1979, and a member of the Hashid Tribal Confederation .
al-Ahmar commanded several offensives against the rebels in the Houthi conflict .
Several unsuccessful attacks were carried out on him.
He was originally considered a confidante of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, but he refused allegiance in the course of the 2011 protests on March 21, 2011. The reason he cited was the role of the Salehs in the violent breakup of the demonstrations on March 18, in which 52 people were shot. He also shared the goals of peaceful youth revolt. In response to the announcement, tanks positioned themselves in front of the Presidential Palace, the Ministry of Defense and the Central Bank. On April 4, 2016, President Abed Rabbo Mansur Hadi appointed General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar to succeed Khalid Bahah as the new Vice President of the Republic of Yemen.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Saleh is losing support. In: the daily newspaper . March 21, 2011, accessed March 22, 2011 .
- ^ Rainer Hermann: A Yemeni tribal affair. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 6, 2011, accessed June 7, 2011 .
- ↑ Top General defected to demonstrators. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . March 21, 2011, accessed March 22, 2011 .
- ↑ Der neue Fischer Weltalmanach 2017 , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-596-72917-3 , p. 240
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| SURNAME | Ahmar, Ali Mohsen al- |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yemeni military officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |