Abdul Latif Dayfallah

Abdul Latif Dayfallah ( born 1929 or 1930 in Harbeth, Ibb Governorate, northern Yemen, Arabic عبد اللطيف ضيف الله, occasionally Daifallah, Dhaifallah or Deifulah transcribed ) was a Yemeni military and politicians. In 1963 he was briefly the first Prime Minister of the newly established the Yemen Arab Republic ( North Yemen ).

Unlike, say, Abdullah as- Sallal or Hassan al - Amri Dayfallah not received his military training in Baghdad, but in 1955 at the Military Academy in Cairo, where he came into contact with the Nasserism. At the time of the overthrow of the monarchy in September 1962, he was already an instructor. Under as- Sallal Dayfallah was first minister of the interior and - after President Sallal had separated the office of the Government of the head of state - on April 26, 1963 the first President of the Executive Council (Prime Minister) of the Republic. He was also a member of the Army High Command and of the Presidential Council. After the Office of the Prime Minister Abdul Rahman al - Iriani have to give on 5 October 1963, he was from 1964 to 1967 Vice- Premier and Minister of Health and Agriculture (from May 1964) and Minister of Public Works and Transport ( from July 1965 and September 1966) or community affairs and communication in cabinets Hamoud al - Dschaifis, Numan, al- al - Amri and Sallals.

After the fall as- Sallals (1967 ) Dayfallah was al - al - Amri 1968 Iriani or interim chief of staff and deputy commander of the army. From 1971 to 1973 he was again Minister of Communications, in 1973 then Minister of Public Works. After the fall of the Cabinet Muhsin al - Aini by pro- Saudi Arabian circles Dayfallah served from 16 to January 25, 1975 again for a few days as interim prime minister, Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani with before finally the candidate of the Saudis was commissioned to form a government. Also in the new cabinet Dayfallah was again Minister of Communications and 1976, even briefly Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister again.