Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi

Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi was a field marshal in Yemen's military who spent eighteen years as vice president under Ali Abdullah Saleh before the 2011 uprising cracked the old order open. When Saleh was wounded in a palace attack and left for medical treatment, Hadi stepped in as acting president, then won a two-year transitional mandate in February 2012 as the sole consensus candidate—boycotted by Houthis in the north and secessionists in the south. His term stretched past its expiration. In January 2015, mass protests over fuel subsidies and frustration with stalled reforms gave the Houthis the…