Targeted killings in Aden and Hadramawt expose a widening security vacuum after the STC rebellion and complicate Saudi-backed efforts to restore normality in government-held areas. The assassination of Mohammed Aidha, the Al Arabiya and Al Hadath correspondent ...
More than 83,000 migrants entered Yemen in the first five months of 2026, exposing how a humanitarian route from the Horn of Africa is increasingly intersecting with smuggling networks, Houthi influence and Saudi border security concerns. Sheba Intelligence previously warned that Afri...
A German media investigation into suspected fraud in GIZ-funded work in Yemen has reopened a wider question that has followed the country’s aid economy for years: how were billions of dollars in humanitarian and development funds monitored in one of the world’s most di...
Saudi Arabia’s latest financial support to Yemen’s internationally recognized government reflects Riyadh’s continued effort to prevent economic collapse in the country and contain the wider security risks such instability could pose to the Red Sea, Bab al-M...
A widening wave of defections from Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces and its political umbrella, the “Tasis” alliance, is raising new questions about the cohesion of Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo’s coalition as the war enters a more fragmented and dangerou...
Sudan’s war is entering a more dangerous phase, with new figures presented to the UN Human Rights Council showing a sharp deterioration in civilian protection, the expanding use of drones, mass displacement, acute hunger, sexual violence and enforced disappearance. ...
Yemen’s electricity crisis has returned to the forefront with the onset of summer, as rising temperatures widen the gap between growing demand and limited generation capacity in areas controlled by the internationally recognized government. In the latest eff...
Somalia’s 2025 was not defined by security challenges alone. It was a year in which the country’s fight against Al-Shabaab intersected with a sensitive security transition, deepening federal tensions, unresolved constitutional disputes, and growing...
Yemen’s Interior Ministry Records 20,610 Criminal Cases in Government-Held Areas in 2025 An annual statistical report issued by Yemen’s General Directorate of Command and Control at the Ministry of Interior recorded 20,610 criminal cases&nb...
Sudan’s war in 2025 moved beyond a contest for military control. It became a struggle over territory, legitimacy, humanitarian survival, regional influence, and the future shape of the Sudanese state. At the beginning of the year, the Sudanese Armed Forces ap...
Since the early 1990s, Yemen has been a safe haven for refugees from East African countries, particularly Ethiopia and Somalia. For these refugees, Yemen is not just a transit bridge to Saudi Arabia, as UN reports suggest, but a country where they can work freely or see...
Now and then, the Eritrean authorities detain dozens of Yemeni fishermen and release them after weeks or days of detention. The latest release of a group of fishermen happened on Saturday, June 29, 2024. Twenty-three Yemeni fishermen arrived in Al-Hudaydah after spending several days in ...
Two Arab diplomatic sources revealed that the United Arab Emirates suggested to the United States to use the breakaway Somaliland region to confront the Ansar Allah (Houthi) campaign in the Red Sea in lieu of the American aircraft carriers which require huge budgets and a considera...
Landmines and explosive devices continue to pose life-threatening risks to millions of civilians in several Yemeni provinces. Every week, deaths and injuries in landmine explosions are reported. Yemeni families have lost their loved ones, causing them to lead a miserable li...
A U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone went down in Yemen's Marib on Wednesday, marking the sixth American drone downed in Yemen since November last year. Sheba Intelligence obtained video footage showing the entire fuselage of the drone in a desert region as if it was not a missile that had hit the dr...
Eritrean authorities released 17 Yemeni fishermen after weeks of being detained in Eritrean prisons, local sources in Al-Hudydah said Saturday. The released fishermen arrived in The coastal area of Al-Khawkhah, where their families and friends gathered to receive them. The fish...
Three U.S. MQ-9 drones have been shot down in Yemen over the past six months. Yesterday, U.S. officials said an MQ-9 drone crashed in Yemen, and it was the third since the start of the Ansar Allah (Houthi) attacks on the Red Sea in November. The officials said the investigation into ...
The lax control on pesticide importation to Yemen has been in the dark over the past few years. Merchants and smugglers capitalized on the war-created chaos and brought millions of liters of unlicensed pesticides. This has put the health of millions of Yemenis in peril. Lately, a documen...
The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) documented 17 cases of violations against journalists and media institutions over the last three months. The YJS said these violations indicate that journalists and media personnel continue working in a dangerous environment without protection. ...
The Executive Unit for the Management of Displaced Persons' Camps in Marib said that 535 fire accidents had occurred in displacement camps in the province over the past three years and three months, leaving 95 civilian deaths and injuries. The Executive Unit attributed the cause o...
