Ali Salem al-BeidhAli Salem al-Beidh (Arabic: علي سالم البيض, romanized: ‘Alī Sālim al-Bīḍ; 10 February 1939 – 17 January 2026) was a Yemeni politician who served as the General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) in South Yemen and as Vice President of Yemen following the unification in 1990. He left the unification government in 1993, sparking the 1994 civil war in Yemen and then went into exile in Oman.
South YemenToday part ofYemenISO 3166-1 = YDISO 3166-3 = YDYESouth Yemen, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY), abbreviated to Democratic Yemen, was a country in South Arabia that existed in what is now southeast Yemen from 1967 until its unification with the Yemen Arab Republic in 1990.
Yemen Arab RepublicToday part ofYemenThe Yemen Arab Republic (YAR; Arabic: الجمهورية العربية اليمنيةal-Jumhūriyyah al-‘arabiyyah al-Yamaniyyah), also known as Yemen (Sanaʽa) and commonly referred to as North Yemen, was a country that existed from 1962 until its unification with the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (commonly known as South Yemen) in 1990, in the northwestern part of what is now Yemen.
Ali Abdullah SalehUnitary GovernmentPresidencyCabinets (Attas 1990, Abdulghani 1994, Bin Ghanem 1997, Iryani 1998, Bajamal I, Bajamal II, Mujawar 2007)General People's Congress (GPC)Yemeni unificationYemeni civil war (1994)Hanish Islands conflictYemeni crisis (2011–present)Yemeni revolutionYemeni civil war (2014–present)Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil warPresidential campaigns19992006Constitutional referendums19912001RelatedAhmed SalehAli Abdullah Saleh (21 March 1947 – 4 December 2017) was a Yemeni military officer and politician who served as the first president of the Republic of Yemen from the Yemeni unification in 1990 until his resignation in 2012, following the Yemeni revolution.
Yemeni Socialist PartyThe Yemeni Socialist Party (Arabic: الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني, romanized: al-Ḥizb al-Ishtirākī al-Yamanī; YSP), also known as the Socialist Party Organization (منظمة الحزب الاشتراكي, Munaẓẓamat al-Ḥizb al-Ishtirākī), is a left-wing opposition political party in Yemen. The successor of the National Front, it was the sole legal political party in South Yemen until the Yemeni unification in 1990.
Yemeni civil war (1994)BelligerentsYemenIslamic Jihad in YemenYemeni Socialist Party (al-Zomrah faction)Democratic Republic of Yemen (from 21 May 1994) Yemeni Socialist PartyCommanders and leadersAli Abdullah SalehAli Mohsen al-AhmarAbdrabbuh Mansour HadiAli Salem al-BeidhCasualties and losses 931 soldiers and civilians killed5,000 wounded (N. Yemen claim) 6,000 fighters and 513 civilians killed 600 destroyed tanks7,000–10,000 dead and 500,000 displacedUnknown number of South Yemeni civilians executedUnitary GovernmentPresidencyCabinets (Attas 1990, Abdulghani 1994, Bin Ghanem 1997, Iryani 1998, Bajamal I, Bajamal II, Mujawar 2007)General People's Congress (GPC)Yemeni unificationYemeni civil war (1994)Hanish Islands conflictYemeni crisis (2011–present)Yemeni revolutionYemeni civil war (2014–present)Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil warPresidential campaigns19992006Constitutional referendums19912001RelatedAhmed SalehThe Yemeni civil war (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اليمنية), also known as the Summer War of 1994 (Arabic: حرب صيف ١٩٩٤), was a civil war fought between the two Yemeni forces of the pro-union northern and the socialist separatist southern Yemeni states and their supporters.
YemenYemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in southern Arabia, the country includes the Socotra Archipelago and borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the northeast, the Arabian Sea to the east, the Gulf of Aden to the south, and the Red Sea to the west. It also shares maritime borders with Djibouti, Eritrea, and Somalia across the Horn of Africa.
Political movementA political movement is a collective attempt by a group of people to change government policy or social values. Political movements are usually in opposition to an element of the status quo, and are often associated with a certain ideology.
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Romanization of ArabicThe romanization of Arabic is the systematic rendering of written and spokenArabic in the Latin script. Romanized Arabic is used for various purposes, among them transcription of names and titles, cataloging Arabic language works, language education when used instead of or alongside the Arabic script, and representation of the language in scientific publications by linguists.
ArabicCentral Semitic languageArabic is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.