Abdul Latif Dayfallah

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Template:Infobox officeholder Template:Short description Abdul Latif Dayfallah (Template:Langx; 1930 - March 27, 2019) was a Yemeni military officer and politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic during the North Yemen Civil War.<ref name=yemen>Template:Cite web</ref> He joined the North Yemeni Army in the 1950s and received military training at the Egyptian Military Academy in Cairo where he acquired Nasserist sympathies. At the time of the September 1962 coup, he held the rank of Major General<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and served as Director of Signals in the Yemeni military.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He held several ministerial posts, such as minister of interior and minister of finance.<ref name="whoiswhoarab">Template:Cite book</ref> He lived in Lebanon from 1966 to 1967. Dayfallah also served as acting prime minister for nine days in January 1975.<ref name=yemen/> Dayfallah died in March 2019 at the age of 89.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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