The Politics of Yemen are in an uncertain state due to the Houthi takeover in Yemen. An armed group known as the Houthis or Ansar Allah seized control of the Northern Yemeni government and announced it would dissolve parliament,as well as install a "presidential council","transitional national council",and "supreme revolutionary council" to govern the country for an interim period. However,the deposed president,Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi,has declared he is still in office and is working to establish a rival government in Aden.
Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar was a Yemeni politician who served as the first President of Yemen,from Yemeni unification on 22 May 1990 to his resignation on 25 February 2012,following the Yemeni Revolution. Previously,he had served as President of the Yemen Arab Republic,or North Yemen,from July 1978 to 22 May 1990,after the assassination of President Ahmad al-Ghashmi.
Ali Mohammed Mujawar served as Prime Minister of Yemen between 7 April 2007 and 10 December 2011,and prior as electricity minister.
Abdulkarim Ismail Al-Arhabi was the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation in the Republic of Yemen. He was also the Managing Director of the Social Fund for Development,which was established in 1997. Al-Arhabi held the post of Minister of Social Affairs and Labor from 2001 to 2006,when he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation. On 30 April 2010,the World Bank awarded Al-Arhabi the Jit Gill Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service for being "a key champion in the battle to reduce poverty,improve governance and broaden economic growth for Yemen."
Abu Bakr Abdullah al-Qirbi is a Yemeni diplomat who was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yemen from 2001 to 2014.
Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi is a Yemeni politician and former field marshal of the Yemeni Armed Forces who served as the president of Yemen from 2012 until 2022,when he stepped down and transferred executive authority to the Presidential Leadership Council,with Rashad al-Alimi as its chairman. He was the vice president to Ali Abdullah Saleh from 1994 to 2012.
The Yemeni Revolution (intifada),also known as the Yemeni Revolution of Dignity followed the initial stages of the Tunisian Revolution and occurred simultaneously with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and other Arab Spring protests in the Middle East and North Africa. In its early phase,protests in Yemen were initially against unemployment,economic conditions and corruption,as well as against the government's proposals to modify Yemen's constitution. The protesters' demands then escalated to calls for the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Mass defections from the military,as well as from Saleh's government,effectively rendered much of the country outside of the government's control,and protesters vowed to defy its authority.
The Battle of Sanaa was a battle during the 2011 Yemeni uprising between forces loyal to Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh and opposition tribal forces led by Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar for control of the Yemeni capital Sanaa and,on the part of the opposition,for the purpose of the downfall of president Saleh.
The following is a timeline of the 2011 Yemeni revolution from January to 2 June 2011. The Yemeni revolution was a series of major protests,political tensions,and armed clashes taking place in Yemen,which began in January 2011,influenced by concurrent protests in the region. Hundreds of protesters,members of armed groups,army soldiers and security personnel were killed,and many more injured,in the largest protests to take place in the South Arabian country for decades.
Khaled Mahfoudh Bahah is a Yemeni politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Yemen between 2014 and 2016,as well as Vice President of Yemen from 2015 until he was fired on April 3,2016 by President of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.
The international reactions to the Yemeni Revolution were not as pronounced as reactions to similar events during the Arab Spring,but a number of governments and organisations made statements on Yemen before and after the departure of longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh from power in February 2012.
The following is a timeline of the 2011–2012 Yemeni revolution from 3 June through 22 September 2011. The Yemeni revolution was a series of major protests,political tensions,and armed clashes taking place in Yemen,which began in January 2011 and were influenced by concurrent protests in the region. Hundreds of protesters,members of armed groups,army soldiers and security personnel were killed,and many more injured,in the largest protests to take place in the South Arabian country for decades.
The following is a timeline of the 2011–2012 Yemeni revolution from 23 September through December 2011. The Yemeni revolution was a series of major protests,political tensions,and armed clashes taking place in Yemen,which began in January 2011 and were influenced by concurrent protests in the region. Hundreds of protesters,members of armed groups,army soldiers and security personnel were killed,and many more injured,in the largest protests to take place in the South Arabian country for decades.
Mohammed Salim Basindawa is a Yemeni politician who was Prime Minister of Yemen from 10 December 2011 to 24 September 2014.
The following is a timeline of the 2011–2012 Yemeni revolution from January to 27 February 2012. The Yemeni revolution was a series of major protests,political tensions,and armed clashes taking place in Yemen,which began in January 2011 and were influenced by concurrent protests in the region. Hundreds of protesters,members of armed groups,army soldiers and security personnel were killed,and many more injured,in the largest protests to take place in the South Arabian country for decades.
The Vice President of the Republic of Yemen is the second highest political position in Yemen.
The Yemeni Crisis began with the 2011–2012 revolution against President Abdullah Saleh,who had led Yemen for 33 years. After Saleh left office in early 2012 as part of a mediated agreement between the Yemeni government and opposition groups,the government led by Saleh's former vice president,Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi,struggled to unite the fractious political landscape of the country and fend off threats both from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and from Houthi militants that had been waging a protracted insurgency in the north for years.
The Battle of Sanaa in 2014 marked the advance of the Houthis into Sanaa,the capital of Yemen,and heralded the beginning of the armed takeover of the government that unfolded over the following months. Fighting began on 9 September 2014,when pro-Houthi protesters under the command of Abdul-Malik al-Houthi marched on the cabinet office and were fired upon by security forces,leaving seven dead. The clashes escalated on 18 September,when 40 were killed in an armed confrontation between the Houthis led by military commander Mohammed Ali al-Houthi and supporters of the Sunni hardliner Islah Party when the Houthis tried to seize Yemen TV,and 19 September,with more than 60 killed in clashes between Houthi fighters and the military and police in northern Sanaa. By 21 September,the Houthis captured the government headquarters,marking the fall of Sanaa.
The Battle of Aden International Airport broke out in the early morning hours of 19 March 2015,when Yemen Army units loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh attacked the airport in Aden,Yemen. The airport was defended by soldiers and guards supporting Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi,Yemen's internationally recognised president.
The Supreme Political Council is a largely unrecognised executive body formed by the Houthi movement and the General People's Congress (GPC) to rule Yemen. Formed on 28 July 2016,the presidential council consists of 10 members and was headed by Saleh Ali al-Sammad as president until his death from a drone air strike on 19 April 2018 with Qassem Labozah as vice-president. The territory that it rules consists of the former North Yemen,which united with South Yemen in 1990.
