Fares Mana'a

Fares Mohammed Manaa (; born February 8, 1965) is a Yemeni arms-dealer, rebel commander and politician. He is said to be Yemen's most famous arms-dealer. Manaa was born on February 8, 1965, in the northern city of Saada.

His name was put on a UN Security Council list of people accused of trafficking arms to Somali Islamist insurgent group Al-Shabaab, and is accused of with al-Qaeda. This led to his assets being frozen by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. spying for Libya and supplying arms to the Houthis. Manaa denied these charges claiming that arms had been stolen by Houthis from an arms deposit he owned. In October 2009 was put at the top of a blacklist of Yemeni arms-dealers, after which he was put under surveillance. In May, a mini-bus driver was killed and a policeman and a civilian woman were injured starting a battle with pro-government al-Abdin tribesmen, During the battle, rebels joined forces with Fares Manaa which appointed him as the new governor of Sa'dah on 26 March, after the pro-Saleh governor Taha Hajer fled to the capital Sanaa.