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South Yemen's origins can be traced to 1874 with the creation of the British Colony of Aden and the Aden Protectorate, which consisted of two-thirds of present-day Yemen. Prior to 1937, what was to become the Colony of Aden had been governed as a part of British India, originally as the Aden Settlement subordinate to the Bombay Presidency and ...
South Yemen granted independence by Great Britain and begins a socialist experiment. 1986: January 13: Gangland-style assassination attempt by the guard of South Yemen President Ali Nasser Mohammed al-Hassani on his rivals in the 15-member Politboro, killing Vice President Ali Antar and sparking gun fight among Politboro members.
Saleh became Yemen's first directly elected president in the 1999 presidential election, winning 96.2% of the vote. [186]: 310 The only other candidate, Najeeb Qahtan Al-Sha'abi, was the son of Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi, a former President of South Yemen.
Its population in the 1980s was estimated at 12 million as opposed to 3 million in South Yemen. [2] South Yemen developed as a mostly secular [3] society ruled first by the National Liberation Front, which later morphed into the ruling Yemeni Socialist Party. The only avowedly communist nation in the Middle East, South Yemen received ...
Today part of: Yemen: Part of a series on the: History of Yemen; Timeline; Ancient history. ... South Yemen (1967–1990) North Yemen (1962–1990) Unified Yemen ...
History of Yemen; Timeline; Ancient history. Kingdom of Saba (c. 1200 – c. 275 CE) ... South Yemen (1967–1990) North Yemen (1962–1990)
The Saudi-led coalition entered Yemen’s war on March 25, 2015, as the Houthis threatened to take Yemen’s port city of Aden and completely overrun the country’s internationally recognized ...
In 1990, North Yemen and South Yemen united into one country, but in February 1994, clashes between northern and southern forces started and quickly developed into a full-scale civil war. As northern forces advanced on Aden, al-Beidh declared the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Yemen on 21 May. [11] The southern resistance however ...