Opposition groups dismissed his offer as a "waste of time".The former president also tried to buy his way out of trouble, offering tens of thousands of dollars (and new cars) to tribal elders. Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemeni military officer who was president of North Yemen from 1978 to 1990 and president of reunified Yemen from 1990 to 2012.

Relations would then deteriorate rapidly when Khalid al-Radhi, a senior member of the GPC and close Saleh adviser, was shot dead.In December of this year, Saleh, speaking during a televised address, formally broke ties with the Houthis, saying he was open to talks with the Saudi-led He blamed the rebels for the country's crisis, calling on forces loyal to him to ignore orders from the Houthi leadership. The Houthis accused Saleh of staging a "coup" and Yemeni officials told Al Jazeera that Saleh's A Yemeni official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the decision was aimed at finding a way for the coalition to exit the war. On December 4, just days after he announced his willingness for dialogue with the Saudi-led coalition, Saleh was Houthi sources told Al Jazeera that Saleh was killed by the rebels in a rocket-propelled grenade and shooting attack on his car.Footage on social media appeared to show a body resembling Saleh's, with one video showing how fighters used a blanket to move his corpse to the back of a pick-up truck. Hakim al-Masmari, the editor-in-chief of the Yemen Post, described Saleh as "probably the most powerful person" in Yemen and said the reports of his death had left the country "in shock and awe". Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (Arabic: أحمد علي عبد الله صالح الأحمر‎; born July 25, 1972) is the eldest son of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, and was a commander of approx. He led the country until his … "However, Saleh then tried to negotiate his way out of the protests, offering to form a "unity government" and proposing a committee to overhaul the constitution. The audio was reportedly recorded in October.In 2016, at the revolution's anniversary, Saleh made a rare However, cracks would soon emerge. But he held on, consolidating power within the ruling General People's Congress (GPC) and buying the support of the country's fractious tribes.Saleh then presided over the unification of North Yemen with the Communist South in 1990, which lost its main patron when the Soviet Union collapsed.The marriage quickly soured, though, with the south frustrated by what it saw as its economic marginalisation at the hands of the northern-dominated government.Still, Saleh proved to be a wily political operator, manipulating the country's tribal system and fending off sustained insurrections in both the north and south.When civil war broke out in mid-1994, and the South seceded in May of that year, its separation would last only two months, before its military was crushed by the North, placing Saleh once again at the helm of a unified Yemen.After the September 11 attacks, Saleh tried to position himself as an important ally of the He allowed American drone aircrafts to kill alleged al-Qaeda targets on Yemeni soil, and in return, Yemen became the recipient of tens of millions of dollars in American aid.After his removal, the UN Security Council found that he had The 2015 report stated that Saleh's assets were stashed in at least 20 countries, and the team planned on investigating the former leader's connections with businessmen, who were helping him hide the funds.Saleh's failures as president fuelled months of popular protests which began in January 2011, shortly after the removal of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. At the onset of the uprising, Yemen was one of the poorest countries in the world, with widespread unemployment and persistent inflation, its billions of dollars in oil revenues embezzled or wasted.