Abd al-Latif Dayfallah

Abdul Latif Dayfallah was a Yemeni military officer and politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic during the North Yemen Civil War. He joined the North Yemeni Army in the 1950s and received military training at the Egyptian Military Academy in Cairo where he acquired Nasserist sympathies. At the time of the September 1962 coup, he held the rank of Major General and served as Director of Signals in the Yemeni military. He held several ministerial posts, such as minister of interior and minister of finance. He lived in Lebanon from 1966 to 1967. Dayfallah also served as acting prime minister for nine days in January 1975. Dayfallah died in March 2019 at the age of 89.