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Ali Salim al-Beidh

b. 1939 · 20th century

Ali Salim al-Beidh is a Yemeni politician who led the Yemeni Socialist Party, the ruling party of South Yemen, from 1986. He negotiated unification with North Yemen and became vice-president of the united Republic of Yemen in 1990. In May 1994 he proclaimed a breakaway Democratic Republic of Yemen in Aden, which collapsed within weeks, and went into exile.

Ali Salim al-Beidh
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