Ali Salem al-Beidh
Ali Salem al-Beidh | |
|---|---|
علي سالم البيض | |
.png) Portrait of al-Beidh | |
| Vice President of Yemen | |
| In office 22 May 1990 – 6 May 1994 | |
| President | Ali Abdullah Saleh (Chairman of the Presidential Council) |
| Prime Minister | Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas Muhammad Said al-Attar |
| Preceded by | Position created |
| Succeeded by | Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi |
| General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party | |
| In office 6 February 1986 – 9 June 1994[1] | |
| Preceded by | Ali Nasir Muhammad |
| Succeeded by | Ali Saleh Obad (Moqbel) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 February 1939 Ar Raydah Wa Qusayar, Aden Protectorate (present-day Yemen) |
| Died | 17 January 2026 (aged 86) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
| Political party | Yemeni Socialist Party |
Ali Salem al-Beidh (Arabic: علي سالم البيض, romanized: ‘Alī Sālim al-Bīḍ; 10 February 1939 – 17 January 2026) was a Yemeni politician who was the General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) in South Yemen. He was also the Vice President of Yemen following the unification in 1990.[2] He left government in 1993. During the 1994 civil war in Yemen, he went into exile in Oman. He was a leader of the Southern independence movement known as Al Hirak.
Al-Beidh died in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on 17 January 2026, at the age of 86.[3][4]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Memory of Time". Al Moqatel. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ↑ "Yemeni governments of the 1990s". al-bab.com. Archived from the original on 28 February 2012.
- ↑ "وفاة علي سالم البيض.. آخر رئيس لليمن الجنوبي" (in Arabic). 17 January 2026.
- ↑ "Ekhbary". www.ekhbary.com. Retrieved 2026-01-18.[permanent dead link]
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