In 1960, with the fall of the ruling Dini administration, Ali Aref Bourhan, a Harbist politician, assumed the seat of Vice President of the Government Council of French Somaliland, representing the UNI party.

* 1971 – Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister.

* 1971 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto takes over as the fourth President of Pakistan.

Uncomfortable with the workings of democratic ststem, unruliness in the East Pakistan parliamentary elections and the threat of Baloch separatism in West-Pakistan, Bengali President Iskandar Ali Mirza issued a proclamation that abolished all political parties in both West and East Pakistan, abrogated the two-year old constitution, and imposed the first martial law in the country on October 7, 1958.

In 2008, a Pakistani religious leader issued a fatwā on President Asif Ali Zardari for " indecent gestures " toward Sarah Palin, U. S. Vice Presidential candidate.

* 1955 – Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistani politician, 11th President of Pakistan

* 1971 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.

He reportedly told Pakistan's President Muhammad Ali Jinnah to begin negotiations for Kalat's treaty of accession to Pakistan.

During the start of the Arab Spring, Gaddafi condemned the Tunisian revolution in January 2011, saying protesters were misled by WikiLeaks and voicing solidarity with ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

* 1925 – Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzanian politician, 2nd President of Tanzania

Following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, that resulted in a series of important political developments, her husband Asif Ali Zardari was eventually elected as the new President in 2008.

Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, Somalia's first Prime Minister of Somalia | Prime Minister and second List of Presidents of Somalia | President.

A government was formed by Abdullahi Issa and other members of the trusteeship and protectorate governments, with Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf as President of the Somali National Assembly, Aden Abdullah Osman Daar as President and Abdirashid Ali Shermarke as Prime Minister ( later to become President from 1967 – 1969 ).

On October 15, 1969, while paying a visit to the northern town of Las Anod, Somalia's then President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards.

Lieutenant General Mohamed Ali Samatar, then Vice President, subsequently served as de facto head of state for the next several months.

President Sharif shortly afterwards appointed Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, the son of slain former President Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, as the nation's new Prime Minister.

The former Premier Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke resigned the month before following a protracted dispute with President Sharif over a proposed draft constitution.

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.

Also President Abdallah wanted the mercenaries to leave.

Their response was a ( third ) coup resulting in the death of President Abdallah, in which Denard and his men were probably involved.

On 15 May 2006, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, a cleric and successful businessman educated in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, was declared the winner of elections for President of the Republic.

Early during the fighting, President Ali Abdallah Salih announced a general amnesty which applied to everyone except a list of 16 persons.

Yemen held its first direct presidential elections in September 1999, electing President Ali Abdallah Salih to a 5-year term in what were generally considered free and fair elections.

* June 12 – Ahmed Abdallah, former President of the Comoros ( d. 1989 )

* November 26 – Ahmed Abdallah, Comorian politician, President of the Republic ( assassinated ) ( b. 1919 )

Even after independence, French companies, such as Société Bambao and Établissements Grimaldi — and other concerns, such as Kalfane and Company and later, President Abdallah's Établissements Abdallah et Fils — dominated the Comoran economy.

Farah was Prime Minister in the Transitional National Government ( TNG ) of Somalia from 12 November 2001 until December 8, 2003, when then President Abdiqassim Salad Hassan held a session of parliament, which cast a vote of no confidence with regard to the Prime Minister and the Parliamentary Speaker at the time, Abdallah Derow Isaak.

Two days later, Comorian President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, with the support of the African Union ( AU ), appointed M. Dhoihirou Halidi as interim President of Anjouan.

Comoran President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi said that if the French objected to extraditing Bacar to Comoros, where the death penalty is allowed, then it could send him to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for trial.

The ALO's leader, the self-styled " President of Al-Ahwaz " Faleh Abdallah Al-Mansouri, was living in exile in the Netherlands since 1989, shortly after the end of the Iran – Iraq War, gaining Dutch nationality.

6 July 1975 – Comorian President Ahmed Abdallah declares the whole archipelago independent of France, outside of the French Community.

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The Republic of Yemen ( ROY ) was declared on 22 May 1990 with Saleh becoming President and al-Baidh Vice President.

On October 1, 1994, Parliament elected President Ali Abdullah Saleh to a 5-year term.

The country held its first direct presidential elections in September 1999, electing President Ali Abdullah Saleh to a 5-year term in what were generally considered credible elections.

In September 2006, citizens re-elected President Saleh to a second term in a generally open and competitive election, although there were multiple problems with the voting process and use of state resources on behalf of the ruling party.

The protestors ' demands then escalated to calls for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been head of state in Unified Yemen since 1990 ( since 1978 in North Yemen ) and was democratically elected in 1999.

President Saleh was reported to have decided in 2005 not to run for another term in office, but was later convinced by a public demonstration calling him to continue as leader of the country to run again.

The supreme commander of the armed forces is Field Marshal, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the President of the Republic of Yemen.

Traditionally, Yemen's relations with the United States have been tepid, as the lack of strong military-to-military ties, commercial relations, and support of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has hindered the development of strong bilateral ties.

After the attack, President Saleh pledged to relocate Yemeni Jews to the capital.

In the spring of 2008, President Saleh attempted to broker a reconciliation agreement between the competing Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah.

** Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of Yemen

* President Ali Abdullah Saleh – Abd Rabbuh Mansur Al-Hadi ( Yemen )

President Ali Abdullah Saleh pledged that his country would continue fighting al-Qaeda " in co-operation with its partners ".

US President Barack Obama's national security adviser, John Brennan, has phoned Saleh to offer US help in fighting al-Qaeda, the White House said.

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, President Ali Abdullah Saleh made an effort to eliminate the Islamist militant presence.

* February 27 – Arab Spring: As a result of ongoing protests, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is succeeded by Vice President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Al-Hadi.

* Tawakel Karman – The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize recipient appeared 21 October 2011, while she was in New York for a UN Security Council resolution that would create a path for Yemen President Saleh to resign.

In the September 2006 presidential election, the JMP backed opposition candidate Faisal bin Shamlan, whose success in garnering 22 percent of the popular vote was viewed at the time as a first step in challenging the political stronghold of President Saleh and the GPC.

However, disputes between the GPC and the JMP in 2007 over election law amendments, coupled with the JMP ’ s opposition to President Saleh ’ s proposed democratic reform measures, have halted initial attempts to forge a dialogue between the two parties.

* Led by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in office since 22 May 1990

The treaty was the basis for the final territorial agreement between both countries concluded during the reign of King Fahd bin Abdulaziz, and President Ali Saleh.