Ali Abdullah Saleh was the inaugural president of Yemen whose ascent to power came after the assassination of President Ahmad al-Ghashmi.
He was elected President of Yemen Arab Republic (the Yemen Arab Republic) in 1978 at the age of 31 (others say 36), and subsequently became the first president of Yemen following the Yemeni unification with South Yemen in 1990. During his two decades in power, he was accused of plundering billions of dollars from the poorest Arab nation. Saleh has been described as having been a dictator.
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