Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi | |
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رشاد محمد العليمي | |
Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council | |
Assumed office 7 April 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed |
Preceded by | Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (as President of Yemen) |
Personal details | |
Born | 1954 (age 67–68) Al-Aloom, Taiz Governorate, North Yemen |
Political party | General People's Congress |
Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi[1] (born 1954) is a Yemeni politician, currently serving as the Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council since 7 April 2022.
Biography
Rashad al-Alimi was born in 1954 in Al-Aloom, a village in the Taiz Governorate,[1] and is the son of judge Mohammed ben Ali al-Alimi. He graduated from Gamal Abdel Nasser College in Sanaa in 1969.[2] He subsequently obtained a bachelor's degree in military science from the Kuwait Police College in 1975, and another university degree in arts from the University of Sanaa in 1977, then a master's degree and a doctorate in sociology from Ain Shams University in Egypt between 1984 and 1988.[3]
A member of the General People's Congress, he was Minister of the Interior from 4 April 2001 to 2008.[2][4] He then became Chairman of the Supreme Security Committee and Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Defense and Security Affairs in May 2008, subsequently becoming a member of the Yemeni National Dialogue Conference, then adviser to President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in 2014.[3]
On 3 June 2011, during the Battle of Sanaa, al-Alimi was wounded along with Ali Abdullah Saleh during an attack on the Al-Nahdin Mosque in the Presidential Palace.[5] He was subsequently transferred to Saudi Arabia and to Germany for treatment, before returning to Sanaa on June 13, 2012. He left the city again as a result of the Houthi takeover in Yemen[1] and began living in Saudi Arabia in 2015.[6] Al-Alimi became Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, a body given the powers of the President of Yemen, on 7 April 2022.[7]
References
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- ^ a b "رشاد العليمي.. تعرّف إلى رئيس مجلس القيادة الرئاسي في اليمن". mubasher.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-04-09.
- ^ "April 2001". www.rulers.org. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
- ^ à 14h10, Par Le 3 juin 2011 (2011-06-03). "Yémen : le président Saleh blessé, son armée riposte". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-04-09.
- ^ "Saudi Arabia shakes up Yemen alliance in bid to exit quagmire". Middle East Monitor. 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
- ^ magazine, Le Point (2022-04-07). "Yémen: le président en exil transfère le pouvoir à un nouveau conseil". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2022-04-09.