Tribal and medical sources have told Sheba Intelligence that the Houthis have expanded compulsory recruitment to include university and high school students, sending them to the front lines to compensate for mounting battlefield losses following intensified fighting in Taiz and...
Amphetamine seizures nearly tripled in a year as Saudi authorities intercepted 3.6 million pills and 141 tonnes of drugs and qat. The figures also expose the growing intersection between narcotics, Yemen’s war economy and migrant-smuggling routes. Saudi Ar...
The suspension of flights follows growing scrutiny over unusually frequent arrivals, large cargo aircraft and flights operating without publicly available identification data Dr Abdulqader Al-Kharraz has confirmed to Sheba Intelligence earlier reports that foreign experts, s...
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...
Abaad Studies and Research Center has launched the Early Warning and Strategic Indicators Observatory as part of its research programs. The Observatory is designed as a platform for monitoring and analyzing daily information and tracking political, economic, milita...
Yemen’s crisis in 2025 was not shaped by a single battlefield, political dispute, or humanitarian emergency. It was a year in which the conflict expanded into a broader struggle over sovereignty, state authority, regional influence, maritime security, and econom...
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...
Heavy rains have caused catastrophic flooding across the western coastal areas of Tihama, Yemen, resulting in at least 50 fatalities or disappearances. The relentless floods have wreaked havoc, displacing hundreds, destroying numerous homes, killing livestock, and causing severe damage t...
Yemen is grappling with severe impacts from climate change, leading to substantial flooding and exacerbating an already dire humanitarian situation. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Yemen, more than 158,000 people hav...
In mid-June 2018, Saudi Arabia launched a special program called "Masam" under the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center to remove war landmines in Yemen. This initiative came in response to increasing casualties from landmines planted by the Houthi group across the co...
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...
The recent Israeli attacks and airstrikes on the Port of Hodeida are exacerbating the humanitarian suffering and economic difficulties faced by Yemeni citizens due to a nearly decade-long war. The Israeli strike targeted the Port of Hodeida, an oil refinery, ...
The Yemeni government's Crisis Management Committee continues working with international organizations to find solutions to the environmental crisis caused by the sunken ship Rubymar. Abdul Salam Al-Jaabi, the Undersecretary of the Public Authority for Environmental Protection in...
Cholera cases keep spreading in Yemen at an alarming rate, causing serious diseases and deaths in several Yemeni provinces. Twenty out of Yemen’s 22 governorates have seen a surge in the number of people with acute watery diarrhea. Reports have revealed that more than 63,000 cases have b...
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...
Dengue fever keeps spreading in Yemen, claiming lives and weakening the health of people in several Yemeni provinces. Over the past few weeks, hundreds of new dengue fever cases have been reported in Al-Matoun district of Al-Jawf in North Yemen. Health officials in Al-Jawf said 311 d...
Yemen marked the International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22 amid the ongoing war and climate change consequences, which keep posing threats to the country's ecosystem. The International Day for Biological Diversity is an occasion to raise awareness of the importance of p...
40 people were killed and injured in heavy rains and massive floods in Al-Mahra province to the east of Yemen, where hundreds of homes were also exposed to damage, local authorities said yesterday. A meeting of the Emergency Committee in Al-Mahra was held in the presence of Governor ...
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...
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...
