Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi: Difference between revisions

In 1970, he received another military scholarship to study tanks in Egypt. Hadi spent the following four years in the Soviet Union studying military leadership. He occupied several military posts in the army of [[South Yemen]] until 1986, when he fled to [[Yemen Arab Republic|North Yemen]] with [[Ali Nasser Mohammed]], president of South Yemen, after Ali Nasser's faction of the ruling [[Yemeni Socialist Party]] lost the [[South Yemen Civil War|1986 civil war]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://yemen24news.blogspot.com/2012/02/hadi-elected-as-yemen-new-president.html|title="Hadi elected as Yemen new president", 25 February 2012|publisher=Yemen24news.blogspot.com|accessdate=7 April 2015}}</ref>

Hadi was forced to agree to a power-sharing deal after the [[Battle of Sana'a (2014)|fall of Sana'a]] to the rebel umbrella organization Ansar Allah in September 2014. Also known as the Houthis, these revolutionaries refused to participate in the "unity government", although they continued to occupy key positions and buildings in [[Sana'a]] and hold territory throughout [[North Yemen|northern Yemen]]. Hadi was further humiliated when the [[General People's Congress (Yemen)|General People's Congress]] ousted him as its leader and rejected his cabinet choices on 8 November 2014.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/08/us-yemen-president-idUSKBN0IS0CZ20141108|agency=Reuters|title=Yemen's Houthis reject new power-sharing government|date=8 November 2014|accessdate=9 February 2015}}</ref> It is important to note that the Houthis' pretext for entering Sana'a and deposing Hadi was to reverse an apparent breach of the Hadi government's mandate by unilaterally declaring an extension of its power beyond the two-year intermediary period actually set by the GCC and the United States.<ref>Blumi, Isa. Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us About the World, p. 198.</ref> They also accused the president of seeking to bypass a power-sharing deal signed when they seized Sana'a in September, and say they are also working to protect state institutions from corrupt civil servants and officers trying to plunder state property.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-president/yemen-leader-expected-to-accept-demands-of-houthis-who-defeat-his-guards-idUSKBN0KU0OT20150121|title=Yemen leader expected to accept demands of Houthis who defeat his...|last=Bayoumy|first=Yara|work=U.S.|access-date=2018-06-14|language=en-US}}</ref>