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. ...
Several Yemeni provinces have seen heavy rains, causing floods and raising concerns about the repercussions of buried landmines in conflict-stricken areas. Since Yemen’s civil war erupted in 2015, the parties to the conflict have planted thousands of landmin...
The aid suspension in Yemen has brought a new level of suffering for civilians, prompting the Houthi group to call for the resumption of aid distribution to needy families. Secretary-General of the Houthi Supreme Council for the Management and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and...
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...
Much has been said and written about Yemen's Socotra Island's exotic and beautiful nature. Little is known about the Island's population's ordeals. Today, people in Socotra have no easy Internet access, and it is a service that only the rich can afford. A local officia...
Yemeni fishermen continue facing deadly threats in their daily fishing journeys in Yemen's territorial waters. Attacks by Eritrean authorities or Eritrean pirates are the number-one threat. On Monday, an Eritrean patrol detained two fishermen while fishing in Yemeni territorial w...
Violations against civilians and civilian properties in Yemen keep occurring in several provinces in line with the continued spread of militant groups and the fragility of the state. A recent statement by the National Committee to Investigate Allegations of Human Rights Violations, a...
It has been nine years since Yemen slid into a civil war after the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group ousted the country’s UN-recognized government in 2015, setting the country on the path of chaos. The civil war was coupled with military intervention by the Saudi-led Arab coaliti...
Militant groups in Yemen have proliferated over the past decade, and they have used force and intimidation to impose their agenda and dominate people. The groups, including the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group, Daesh, southern separatists and armed militants in Taiz, resorted to several vi...
Nine years have passed since the Saudi-led Arab coalition launched a military campaign in Yemen on March 26, 2015, to restore the UN-recognized government to Sanaa and incapacitate the Iran-backed Houthi group. Neither the conflict ended, nor the Houthis had been&...
Over 17 million Yemenis need help to have access to water, the United Nations said on Friday. On World Water Day, which falls on March 22 every year, the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, stated, "17.4 million people in Yemen, half children, r...
Informed sources told Sheba Intelligence that a delegation from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs met with members of the Houthi group in Muscat to hear their reply to Oslo's request to extradite the killer of Norwegian citizen Martine Vik Magnussen, who was killed in Britain...
Shabwah province in South Yemen continues to experience sporadic clashes between tribesmen and southern separatists, deepening the rift between the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council and the tribes in the province. Yesterday, armed confrontations broke out between tribesmen and...
Soldiers affiliated with the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group blew up a citizen's house in Rada'a of Al-Baydha province in central Yemen early Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, including women and children, local sources said. The explosion in the house...
The Public Prosecution and the forensic department in the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group-controlled Al-Hudydah buried 24 unidentified bodies in cooperation with the International Red Cross and the General Department of Criminal Evidence, Houthi-run med...
The Red Sea escalation has sparked new troubles for Yemen, adding to the suffering of millions of people across the country. Presently, food insecurity and environmental catastrophe are the fresh challenges for a country beset by a nine-year-old civil war. The United Nations Food and...
The Ansar Allah (Houthi) group has confessed that Iran has provided support for the Houthis to target shipping lanes in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. This is the first time Houthis have admitted the key Iranian role in their military operations. While Iranian officials have repea...
Military tension between the UAE and Saudi Arabia escalated in the eastern and southern regions of Yemen in an unprecedented manner, leading to frictions that almost turned into a military confrontation between opposing forces loyal to the Gulf states. After the forces loyal...
In a concerning turn of events, forces aligned with the UAE have taken control of a camp allied with Saudi Arabia in Socotra, Yemen. According to anonymous sources in the Yemeni government told Sheba Intelligence that UAE-backed troops have seized command of the First Marine Br...
