Piracy is gradually returning to the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somalia and Yemen, raising concerns that an old maritime threat is reappearing at a time when international naval attention is heavily focused on Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab. Recent mari...
Al-Rayyan, a remote desert area in Yemen’s Al-Jawf governorate northeast of Marib, is emerging as a new pressure point against the Houthis after the release of Sheikh Hamad bin Rashid bin Fadgham al-Hazmi. The case is no longer only about the detention of a t...
A social media campaign led by Yemeni writer and activist Osama al-Jaser has moved beyond a personal online dispute. It has become part of a wider Yemeni debate over religion, memory, Houthi rule and the meaning of the state after more than a decade of war. The ca...
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...
Port Sudan has resumed cargo transshipment operations after a long halt, in a development that carries significant economic and logistical importance for a country devastated by war since April 2023. The Red Sea city has become a key alternative hub for state institutions, i...
Yemen’s recent push to strengthen local authorities has reopened a sensitive debate over decentralization, federalism and the future shape of the state after years of war. The debate gained momentum after the National Conference on Partnership and Integration b...
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...
The attacks, which took place on Tuesday and Wednesday around Jabal al-Aqeedat, reportedly killed and wounded a number of traditional miners. The exact toll remains unclear due to the difficulty of reaching the targeted sites and the remote nature of the mining zones. Vid...
A political controversy in Yemen over the status of Socotra has opened a wider debate about sovereignty, maritime security and the role of regional powers in shaping local authority along the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. The dispute began after Socotra Governor Raafat Al...
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. ...
The death of the young Yemeni adventurer Al-Qaqa’a bin Antarah, widely known as “Yemen’s Spider-Man” or the “Spider-Man of Damt,” has left a deep sense of shock and grief among Yemenis. His fall into the crater of the dormant...
The regional rivalry reshaping the Red Sea is increasingly moving south into the Gulf of Aden, where Somalia’s fragile political landscape, armed networks and contested ports are becoming part of a broader struggle over maritime influence between Yeme...
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...
The arrest of a Yemeni man suspected of fighting for the Islamic State group in Somalia’s Puntland region has raised fresh concerns over the growing cross-border nature of ISIS activity in the Horn of Africa and the security risks facing the Gulf of Aden maritime corridor. Puntl...
Exclusive information obtained by Sheba Intelligence indicates that the Houthi group raised its military readiness along Yemen’s western coast and in Hajjah governorate hours before announcing missile attacks and threatening Israeli-linked shipping in the Red Sea. &...
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...
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...
