Mohsin Ahmad Alaini (Arabic: محسن أحمد العيني; 20 October 1932 – 25 August 2021)[1] was a Yemeni politician who served as the prime minister of the Yemen Arab Republic five times between 1967 and 1975.[2]
Biography
In 1947, Alaini was selected among other students to do a scholarship in Beirut, he then studied law at the Cairo University in 1952–59, and Sorbonne in 1956–57. In 1957, he published a book, Battles and Conspiracies Against the Yemeni Issue (Arabic: معارك ومؤامرات ضد قضية اليمن). He started his career as a teacher in Aden, where he was involved in the anti-colonial trade union movement from 1960 onwards against British rule. Expelled from Aden by the British in 1961, he returned to Egypt as a delegate of the trade union federation. In Cairo, he joined the Ba'ath Party and allied himself with the moderate Nasserists.
Following the Civil War and the overthrow of the monarchy, he was appointed the first foreign minister of the Yemen Arab Republic.[3]
The fifth and final term was served under Ibrahim al-Hamdi. It was from 22 June 1974 to 16 January 1975.
Between and after these terms he was appointed foreign minister (1962, 1965, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1974), and sent as ambassador to the United Nations (1962–65, 1965–66, 1967–68, 1979–81), the Soviet Union (1968–70), France (1971, 1975–76), the United Kingdom (1973–74), West Germany (1981–84) and United States (1963–66, 1984–97).[1] Back in Yemen he was nominated for the Shura council of elder statesmen.
In 1962, al-Aini married Aziza Abulahom (Abu Luhum), with whom he had two sons, two daughters and thirteen grandchildren. His brother-in-law and important supporter, Sinan Abu Luhum, was governor of the port city of Al Hudaydah for many years.
