{"id":24359,"date":"2016-04-04T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T02:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/yemeni-pm-sacked-in-major-shake-up-of-senior\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T01:59:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T01:59:08","slug":"yemeni-pm-sacked-in-major-shake-up-of-senior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/yemeni-pm-sacked-in-major-shake-up-of-senior\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni PM sacked in major shake-up of senior officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{President Mansour Hadi sacks current prime minister and names new vice president and prime minister, reports say.}<\/p>\n<p>Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi appointed a new vice-president and prime minister, sacking current prime minister Khaled Bahah, sources tells AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>In a major shake-up of senior officials, Hadi named on Sunday as the new vice president General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, a politically powerful army general who split violently with former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2011 during the Arab Spring protests that eventually ousted Saleh.<\/p>\n<p>The new prime minister, Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr, was a former official in Saleh&#8217;s General People&#8217;s Congress party before joining Hadi&#8217;s camp.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate explanation behind Bahah&#8217;s dismissal, which comes just a week ahead of a UN-brokered ceasefire planned between Yemen&#8217;s warring parties, which is expected to pave the way for peace talks in Kuwait on April 18.<\/p>\n<p>But government sources have in the past spoke of differences between the president and Bahah, who had served as Yemen&#8217;s envoy to the UN before Hadi appointed him as foreign minister and then prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Hadi reshuffled his cabinet, naming new foreign and interior ministers in a move that was understood to be aimed at smoothing his relations with Bahah.<\/p>\n<p>Hadi has also recently been involving Ahmar more actively in decision-making, appointing him in February as armed forces deputy commander in a bid to rally support from tribes and troops in the rebel-held region around Yemen&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmar&#8217;s troops played a prominent role in the 2011 uprising that ousted strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh, whose loyalists are now allied with Iran-backed Shia rebels in control of Sanaa.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11376 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/d5682b532cc540a8bbd6632c8a3aedfd_18-2.jpg\" alt=\"Government sources have in the past spoke of differences between President Hadi and Bahah \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Mansour Hadi sacks current prime minister and names new vice president and prime minister, reports say.} Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi appointed a new vice-president and prime minister, sacking current prime minister Khaled Bahah, sources tells AFP news agency. 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