Al-Busi
Al-Bu`si, Busi, Bo'sī,, or the Bu`si Sheikhdom, was a small state in the British Aden Protectorate. It was one of the states of Upper Yafa.
History
Busi was established around the 18th century.Protectorate treaties were signed with the other states of Upper Yafa in 1903, but Busi was excluded and remained independent. Between 1903 and 1954, two different sheikhs of Busi, father and son, attempted to obtain a protectorate treaty, but Britain denied their applications, partly because it was undesirable to multiply the number of treaty chiefs. Although Busi was not allowed to enter into the British protectorate, the sheikhs were still entitled to an annual visit to Aden. The Sheikh of Busi was one of the South Arabian rulers attending the second Lahej conference in 1930.
In August 1954, a request for a protectorate treaty by the Sheikh of Busi was forwarded by Tom Hickinbotham, the Governor of Aden, to Alan Lennox-Boyd, the Secretary of State for the Colonies. In that year, Busi became the last of the Yemeni polities to enter into a protectorate treaty with Britain. In A History of Modern Yemen, Paul Dresch notes that this treaty was virtually identical to the ones Britain had signed with Busi's neighbours 50 years earlier. Busi did not join the Federation of South Arabia in 1962, but was nominally part of the Protectorate of South Arabia.
Its last sheikh was deposed in 1967 upon the founding of the People's Republic of South Yemen and the area is now part of the Republic of Yemen.