News 24 | The death of former oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani

Former Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani passed away today (Tuesday) at the age of 90.

A relative of the deceased said he would be buried in Al-Mualla cemetery in Makkah Al-Mukarramah where he is to pray at the Grand Mosque.

Boy Yamani was in Makkah al-Mukarramah in 1930 and obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from Cairo University, and also received graduate studies in law from New York and Harvard universities, and he is fluent in Arabic, l ‘English and French.

He assumed the post of Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources in 1962 and continued until 1986, during which time he experienced the oil embargo in 1973, and was the first Secretary General of ” OPEC “.