Khaled Mahfoudh Bahah ( ar, خالد محفوظ بحاح) (born 1 January 1965) is 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 and diplomat who served as
Prime Minister of Yemen
The prime minister of the Republic of Yemen is the head of government of Yemen.
Under the Constitution of Yemen, the prime minister is appointed by the president, and the former, as well as their Cabinet, must enjoy confidence from the House of ...
between 2014 and 2016, as well as
Vice President of Yemen The Vice President of the Republic of Yemen is the second highest political position in Yemen.
As of 7 April 2022, the role is fulfilled by the Deputy Chairmen of the Presidential Leadership Council.
Under the Constitution of Yemen, the Vice Pres ...
from 2015 until he was fired on April 3, 2016 by
President of Yemen
The president of the Republic of Yemen is the head of state of Yemen. Under the Constitution of Yemen, the president is also the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and head of the executive branch of the Yemeni government.
As of 7 April 202 ...
Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi ( ar, عبدربه منصور هادي, translit=ʿAbd Rabbih Manṣūr Hādī Yemeni pronunciation: ; born 1 September 1945) is a Yemeni politician and former field marshal of the Yemeni Armed Forces who served as the pres ...
.
Life and career
Bahah received his
BCom
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and
MCom (1992) from
Pune University
Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), formerly the University of Poona, is a collegiate public state university located in the city of Pune, India. It was established in 1949, and is spread over a campus in the neighbourhood of Ganeshk ...
in
India
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.
In 2011, Bahah actively backed the
revolution in Yemen beginning in March, demanding that President
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 ...
resign and avoid further bloodshed. He quit the ruling party on account of the Saleh administration's violence against its own citizens. He continued to serve as Yemeni Ambassador to Canada.
["Yemen Live Blog – March 21"](_blank)
Al Jazeera English
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. 21 March 2011.
President
Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi ( ar, عبدربه منصور هادي, translit=ʿAbd Rabbih Manṣūr Hādī Yemeni pronunciation: ; born 1 September 1945) is a Yemeni politician and former field marshal of the Yemeni Armed Forces who served as the pres ...
named Bahah, then serving as Permanent Representative to the United Nations, as Prime Minister-designate on 13 October 2014, with the assent of
Houthis
The Houthi movement (; ar, ٱلْحُوثِيُّون ''al-Ḥūthīyūn'' ), officially called Ansar Allah (' ''Partisans of God'' or ''Supporters of God'') and colloquially simply Houthis, is an Islamist political and armed movement that ...
who
seized the capital the previous month. He took office as Prime Minister on 9 November 2014. However, on 22 January 2015, after
heavy fighting around the presidential compound, President Hadi and Prime Minister Bahah submitted their resignations and the cabinet dissolved, leaving Yemen without a government.
Bahah was ordered to return to work by the Houthis after the
House of Representatives
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was reinstated and Hadi escaped to
Aden
Aden ( ar, عدن ' Yemeni: ) is a city, and since 2015, the temporary capital of Yemen, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some east of the strait Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000 people. ...
in late February 2015, but he and his former ministers reportedly refused. In March 2015, Bahah was released from house arrest and he immediately left Sana'a.
While in exile in
Saudi Arabia
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during the
civil war
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
between his supporters and the Houthis, Hadi named Bahah as Vice President on 12 April 2015. An aide to Hadi expressed hope that Bahah's appointment would help bring about a "political solution" to the conflict. ''
Le Monde
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'' described Bahah as "a man of consensus" and suggested he could step in as an acceptable successor to Hadi if the
Saudi-led intervention in Yemen was successful in restoring the exiled government to power.
Bahah returned to
Aden
Aden ( ar, عدن ' Yemeni: ) is a city, and since 2015, the temporary capital of Yemen, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some east of the strait Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000 people. ...
with several other ministers "to stay permanently" on 16 September 2015, according to a government spokesman, amid loyalist and coalition gains in the south.
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1965 births
Ambassadors of Yemen to Canada
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Living people
Prime Ministers of Yemen
Savitribai Phule Pune University alumni
Vice presidents of Yemen
Yemeni diplomats
Yemeni Sunni Muslims
People from Sharqia Governorate
Heads of government who were later imprisoned
People of the Yemeni Civil War (2014–present)
21st-century Yemeni politicians
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