Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi Sacks Yemeni prime minister Khaled Bahah Sunday April 03,2016

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi appointed a new vice president and prime minister, sacking current prime minister Khaled Bahah on Sunday April 03,2016

In a major shake-up of senior officials, Hadi named on Sunday as the new vice president General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, a politically powerful army general who split violently with former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2011 during the Arab Spring protests that eventually ousted Saleh.

The new prime minister, Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr, was a former official in Saleh's General People's Congress party before joining Hadi's camp.

There was no immediate explanation behind Bahah's dismissal, which comes just a week before a UN-brokered ceasefire planned between Yemen's warring parties, which is expected to pave the way for peace talks in Kuwait on April 18,2016

Yemen has been in a civil war for more than a year between Hadi's supporters and the Iran-allied Houthi group that has sucked in a Saudi-led alliance and caused a major humanitarian crisis in one of the poorest countries in the Middle East