Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani ( ; 4 July 1939 – 22 August 2011) was a

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

i politician who served as Prime Minister of Yemen from 1994 to 1997, under

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Ali Abdullah Saleh Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (, ''ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar;'' 21 March 1947There is a dispute as to Saleh's date of birth, some saying that it was on 21 March 1942. See: However, by Saleh's own confession, he was born in 1947 al ...

. Ghani was a member of the General People's Congress party. Ghani also served as the second Vice President of Yemen Arab Republic in the 1980s, and as the

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of the

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twice. His first term was from 1975 to 1980, and his second term was from 1983 to unification in 1990. Abdul Ghani was the president of the Consultative Council (Shura Council) from 2001 until his death in 2011. He received his BA degree in

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from

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in the United States in 1962 and an MA in economics from the

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in 1964. He died in Saudi Arabia on 22 August 2011 from injuries suffered in a June assassination attempt on President

, a government official with Saleh in Riyadh said. Ghani was the first senior political figure to die from the explosion in Saleh's palace mosque which forced the president and a number of his aides to seek medical treatment in

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