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Ameen Ali al-Akimi

Yemeni politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ16121557 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ameen Ali al-Akimi (Arabic: الشيخ أمين العكيمي; born 1959) is a Yemeni politician and MP. On 15 August 2016, he was appointed by Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi as governor of Al-Jawf Governorate until 10 October 2022 when he was replaced with Hussein al-Aji al-Awadhi.

Career

Member of Parliament for three consecutive terms, for constituency No. (276) in Al-Jawf Governorate.

Commander of the Border Guard battalions, and was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1994.

Head of the Bakil Tribal Council, 2010.

Commander of the Al-Nasr Brigade in Al-Jawf Governorate, and was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in 2015.

Governor of Al-Jawf Governorate on August 15, 2016.

Commander of the "Al-Jawf Axis", in addition to his work as governor of the governorate, and was promoted to the rank of the major general on July 7, 2018.

Editorial summary

“Ameen Ali al-Akimi” enters the record as yemeni politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ameen, al-Akimi and Yemeni can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 2016, 2022, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ameen, al-Akimi and Yemeni.
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“Ameen Ali al-Akimi” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ameen, al-Akimi and Yemeni provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16121557. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1959, 2016, 2022 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ameen Ali al-Akimi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.