Abdul Karim Al Eryani, a Yemeni former prime minister and diplomat who helped bring about a peaceful change of Yemen’s government during the Arab Spring of 2011, died Sunday in Frankfurt, Germany, where he had flown for medical treatment. He was 81.
His son, Hazim Al Eryani, confirmed the death.
Al Eryani was a scion of a prominent family that had held government posts in the region for 700 years. A scientist educated in Egypt and the United States, he was considered a father figure and a voice of reason in Yemen, a country infamous for long, bloody tribal feuds and more recently an expanding franchise of Al Qaida on the Arabian Peninsula.
Source: Abdul Karim Al Eryani, Yemen’s ‘last statesman’, dies at 81 | GulfNews.com
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