Yemeni unification

Unification of Yemen
Part of the end of the Cold War
	Ali Abdullah Saleh (President of the Yemen Arab Republic) and Ali Salem al-Beidh (President of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen) raising the flag of the newly formed state
Native name	al-waḥda al-Yamaniyya الوحدة اليمنية
Date	22 May 1990
Location	Yemen Arab Republic; People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
Cause	Arab nationalism; First Yemenite War; Second Yemenite War; Discovery of Ṣāfer oilfield in Shabwah in the south and Marib in the north; South Yemeni crisis; Dissolution of the Soviet Union;
Outcome	Unification of Yemen Sanaa becomes the capital of unified Yemen; The Yemeni rial becomes the official currency of unified Yemen; The South's "United Republic" became the country's national anthem;

The Yemeni unification (Arabic: الوحدة اليمنية, romanized: al-waḥda l-Yamaniyya) took place on 22 May 1990, when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) and the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) united, forming the Republic of Yemen.