Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini

The fifth and final term was served under Ibrahim al-Hamdi. It was from 22 June 1974 to 16 January 1975.

Between and after these terms he was appointed foreign minister (1962, 1965, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1974), and sent as ambassador to the United Nations (1962–65, 1965–66, 1967–68, 1979–81), the Soviet Union (1968–70), France (1971, 1975–76), the United Kingdom (1973–74), West Germany (1981–84) and United States (1963–66, 1984–97). Back in Yemen he was nominated for the Shura council of elder statesmen.

In 1962, al-Aini married Aziza Abulahom (Abu Luhum), with whom he had two sons, two daughters and thirteen grandchildren. His brother-in-law and most important supporter Sinan Abu Luhum was governor of the port city of Al Hudaydah for many years.

In 1947, Alaini was selected among other students to do a scholarship in Beirut, then he studied law at the Cairo University in 1952–59, and Sorbonne in 1956–57. He started his career as a teacher in Aden, where he was involved in the anti-colonial trade union movement from 1960 onwards against the British rule. Expelled from Aden by the British in 1961, he returned to Egypt as a delegate of the trade union federation. In Cairo, he joined the Ba'ath Party and allied himself with the moderate Nasserists.

Mohsin Ahmad Alaini (Arabic: محسن أحمد العيني; 20 October 1932 – 25 August 2021) was a Yemeni politician, who served as the prime minister of the Yemen Arab Republic five times between 1967 and 1975.