Complex sentence: Nasser Al-Aulaqi served as Agriculture Minister and as President of Sana'a University; he is a prominent member of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ruling party.
Split into simpler sentences: Nasser Al-Aulaqi served as Agriculture Minister and as President of Sana'a University. He was a prominent member of then-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ruling party.