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Ali Abdullah Saleh
Ali Abdullah Saleh was President of North Yemen from 1978 and, after unification in 1990, the first President of the Republic of Yemen. He won the civil war of 1994 against southern separatists. Protests in 2011 forced him to hand over power in 2012, and he was killed in 2017 after breaking his alliance with the Houthis.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Ali Abdullah Saleh. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/ali-abdullah-saleh
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