Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar (20 June 1945-) was Vice-President of Yemen from 3 April 2016, succeeding Khaled Bahah.
Biography[]
Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar was born on 20 June 1945 in Sana'a, Yemen, and he served in the Yemeni Republican Guard during the North Yemeni Civil War, rising in the ranks of the military of North Yemen during peacetime. From 1987 to 2011 he led the Yemeni 1st Armored Division, although he had Salafist leanings unlike President Ali Abdullah Saleh. He was one of the founders of the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army and recruited al-Qaeda and other Salafi militants in the fight against the Houthis during the Yemeni Civil War, and he took part in the Yemeni Revolution in 2011 against Saleh. On 3 April 2016, he was made Abd-Rabbuh Mansur Hadi's new Vice-President after Khaled Bahah was sacked.