# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fares-mana-a
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:06:52.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fares-mana-a"
name: "Fares Mana'a"
slug: "fares-mana-a"
description: "Fares Mohammed Manaa is a Yemeni arms-dealer, businessman, rebel commander and politician. He is said to be Yemen's most famous arms-dealer. Manaa was born on February 8, 1965, in the northern city of Saada. He was an ally of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and member of his ruling GPC party and served as head of his presidential committee and as head of a local council tasked with mediating a peace-deal between the Yemeni government and Houthis during the Shia insurgency in Yemen. His brother was the governor of Saada Governorate at the time."
tagline: "Top Yemeni arms dealer and appointed governor of the Saada Governorate by the Houthis in 2011"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1965-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.41
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.044280000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5434993"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fares_Manaa"
    title: "Fares Mana'a"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B9"
    title: "فارس مناع"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fares_Manaa"
    title: "Fares Manaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A1_%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%A2"
    title: "פארס מנאע"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fares_Manaa"
    title: "Fares Manaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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