📅 October 1978
Several southern political organizations were consolidated into the Yemen Socialist Party, which became the ruling party of the PDRY. The reorganization followed violent factional struggles over the...
📅 14 October 1980
Ali Nasir became president of South Yemen after Ismail stepped aside and left the country. Rivalries within the ruling party remained unresolved and later contributed to the 1986 fighting.
📅 13 January 1986
A violent confrontation began during a Politburo meeting between Ali Nasir Muhammad and rival party leaders. Fighting spread through Aden as competing factions mobilized within the PDRY’s ruling...
📅 13 January 1986
Ali Nasir and supporters fled the capital as rival forces fought for control of state institutions, military units and neighborhoods. The conflict exposed deep divisions inside the ruling party, not a...
