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ADEL MOHAMED ALI BA HAMID
He is a Yemeni doctor, diplomat, and politician. He was born on September 17, 1973, in the city of Sayun in Hadramaut Governorate, from a family belonging to the class of sheikhs who usually undertake matters of spreading knowledge and preaching in mosques as well as the judiciary. He completed his university education in general medicine and general surgery from the College of Medicine at the University of Aden, then he specialized in public health and community medicine from the same university.

He practiced his community activity through many civil society organizations, some of which he founded or was a member of their boards of trustees or executive departments. He also practiced his political activity since assuming the presidency of the Student Union at the University of Aden, and at that time he was exposed to many arrests due to his demands for student rights.

He joined the Yemeni Islah Party in 1996 and rose through the party’s organizational hierarchy at the level of Aden Governorate, especially in its student sector, until he submitted his resignation from the party in 2004, to work as an independent political activist while adhering to his moderate Islamic tendencies and orientations.

On December 24, 2014, he was appointed as the Governor of Hadhramaut Governorate, which is the largest and richest governorate in Yemen, by a presidential decision from President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi. He submitted his resignation from the position of governor on January 4, 2016, so President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi appointed Major General Ahmed Saeed bin Brik as governor in his place on January 16, 2016.

Bahamid then moved to Malaysia to work as CEO of the NAMA Foundation, which is active in the field of education and enhancing the capabilities of third sector organizations, until President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi returned to appoint him, by presidential decree, as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Yemen to Malaysia on October 12, 2016, and as a non-resident ambassador of Yemen in each of the following countries: Vietnam, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Thailand, and he took over the deanship of the Council of Arab Ambassadors to Malaysia from his successor, the Algerian ambassador, Nasr al-Din Rimoush, on November 7, 2021.