This chapter discusses the rise of Ali Abdullah Saleh from the military ranks of the YAR to the presidency of North Yemen in the 1970s. It explores the influence of Ibrahim al-Hamdi, the assassinations of Ibrahim al-Hamdi and another president, and characterizes it as a consolidation of the right flank of the YAR government.
Featuring Helen Lackner on the Houthis, the politics of their attacks on Red Sea shipping, and the long history of Yemen from British colonial Aden through the current civil war.
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