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Former Yemen President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, Who Governed Mostly From Exile, Dies at 80
The former Yemeni leader handed power to a 8-member council in 2022 after years of war and division in Yemen, officials said.
- On Thursday, former Yemeni president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi died in Riyadh at age 80. A source in the Yemeni presidency told AFP he "died in the Saudi capital following a sudden health crisis."
- Born in 1945, Hadi graduated from the United Kingdom's Sandhurst military academy and served as defense minister under Ali Abdullah Saleh before assuming the presidency in 2012.
- His presidency faced immediate turmoil in 2014 when Iran-backed Houthis seized the capital, Sanaa, forcing Hadi to flee to Saudi Arabia in 2015 as a Saudi-led coalition intervened.
- In April 2022, amid a United Nations-brokered ceasefire, Hadi transferred his powers to the Presidential Leadership Council, led by Rashad al-Alimi.
- The government declared three days of mourning, though funeral arrangements remain unknown, as Yemen remains divided between Houthi-controlled territory and the south amid a major humanitarian crisis.
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Former Yemen President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, who governed mostly from exile, dies at 80
ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, the internationally recognized president of Yemen who led a fractured government mostly from exile for eight years as the country descended into civil war and famine before stepping down in 2022, died Thursday. He was 80. State-run Yemeni TV said that he died at his residence in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, but gave no other details. Rashad al-Alimi, the head of the Presidential Leadership Counc…
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Exiled since 2015, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi leaves behind a Yemen still divided, marked by war and a fragile truce negotiated by the UN.
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