Rashad al-Alimi
Prime Minister | Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak |
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Vice President | Aidarus al-Zoubaidi Tareq Saleh Sultan Ali al-Arada Abdullah al-Alimi Bawazeer |
Preceded by | Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (as President of Yemen) |
Adviser to the President of Yemen | |
In office 2014[1] – 7 April 2022 | |
President | Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi |
Member of the General Committee of the General People's Congress | |
Assumed office 2011[1] | |
Deputy Prime Minister of Yemen | |
In office 2006–2011[1] | |
President | Ali Abdullah Saleh |
Prime Minister | Abdul Qadir Bajamal Ali Muhammad Mujawar |
Interior Minister of Yemen | |
In office 4 April 2001 – 18 May 2008 | |
President | Ali Abdullah Saleh |
Prime Minister | Abdul Qadir Bajamal Ali Muhammad Mujawar |
Preceded by | Hussein Arab |
Succeeded by | Mutaher al-Masri |
Personal details | |
Born | Al-Aloom, 1994 civil war in Yemen | January 15, 1954
Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi (
Early life and education
Rashad al-Alimi was born on January 15, 1954,
Career
A member of the General People's Congress, he was Minister of the Interior from 4 April 2001 to 2008.[3][5][1] He then became Chairman of the Supreme Security Committee and Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Defense and Security Affairs in May 2008, subsequently becoming a member of the Yemeni National Dialogue Conference, then adviser to President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in 2014.[4]
On 3 June 2011, during the Battle of Sanaa, al-Alimi was wounded along with Ali Abdullah Saleh during an attack on the Al-Nahdin Mosque in the Presidential Palace.[6] He was subsequently transferred to Saudi Arabia and to Germany for treatment, before returning to Sanaa on 13 June 2012. He left the city again as a result of the Houthi takeover in Yemen[2] and began living in Saudi Arabia in 2015.[7]
Al-Alimi became Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, a body given the powers of the President of Yemen, on 7 April 2022, through a decree by President Hadi, who irreversibly transferred his powers to the council. Multiple sources in the Yemeni and Saudi governments stated that Saudi Arabia, where Hadi was living, forced him to cede power to Alimi.[8][9][10]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Biography". Official Website of Rashad al-Alimi (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- ^ a b c "Who is the new President of the Presidential Council in Yemen?". Middle East 24 News English. 7 April 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ a b "من هو رشاد العليمي .. رئيس مجلس القيادة الرئاسي المخول بصلاحيات الرئيس هادي (سيرة ذاتية )". ye-now.net (in Arabic). 7 April 2022. Archived from the original on 7 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ a b "رشاد العليمي.. تعرّف إلى رئيس مجلس القيادة الرئاسي في اليمن". mubasher.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ "April 2001". www.rulers.org. Archived from the original on 10 November 2001. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ "Yémen : le président Saleh blessé, son armée riposte". leparisien.fr (in French). 3 June 2011. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ "Saudi Arabia shakes up Yemen alliance in bid to exit quagmire". Middle East Monitor. 7 April 2022. Archived from the original on 7 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ magazine, Le Point (7 April 2022). "Yémen: le président en exil transfère le pouvoir à un nouveau conseil". Le Point (in French). Archived from the original on 7 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Archivedfrom the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- ^ "Saudi Arabia forced Yemen's president to resign, says report". Middle East Eye. Washington, D.C. 18 April 2022. Archived from the original on 11 February 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2023.