He lives in hiding in Saudi Arabia — and Trump still calls him Yemen’s president
State Department and international diplomats cling to the dangerous fiction that Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council is legitimate. Foreign envoys treat its chairman, Rashad al Alimi, as a counterterrorism partner. In reality, this character is an expatriate figurehead who controls no real territory and lives in hiding in Saudi Arabia.
- ▪State Department and international diplomats cling to the dangerous fiction that Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council is legitimate.
- ▪Foreign envoys treat its chairman, Rashad al Alimi, as a counterterrorism partner.
- ▪In reality, this character is an expatriate figurehead who controls no real territory and lives in hiding in Saudi Arabia.
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The U.S. State Department and international diplomats cling to the dangerous fiction that Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council is legitimate. Foreign envoys treat its chairman, Rashad al Alimi, as a counterterrorism partner. In reality, this character is an expatriate figurehead who controls no real territory and lives in hiding in Saudi Arabia. He is Yemen’s Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia: a leader on paper, but a ghost in practice.While the Houthis terrorize international shipping and dominate northwestern Yemen, al Alimi’s administration functions as a corrupt syndicate.
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