India, May 29 -- Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, the internationally recognised president of Yemen who led a fractured Government mostly from exile for eight years as the country descended into civil war and famine before stepping down in 2022, died on Thursday at the age of 80.

State-run Yemeni TV said he died at his residence in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, but gave no other details. Rashad al-Alimi, the head of the Presidential Leadership Council - the leadership body of Yemen's internationally recognised government - said Hadi believed in the Yemeni people's "right to a just state, freedom and human dignity."

"He led the battle to defend the republican system," al-Alimi said on X. The Government announced three days of mourning, dur...