A landmine in Yemen can close a road, empty a farm, delay aid, or kill a child years after the fighting has moved elsewhere. A sea mine can do something larger: threaten fishermen, contaminate coastal waters, disrupt ports, and turn parts of the Red Sea and Bab al-Man...
Recent developments in Somalia have placed the country at the center of two overlapping security tracks: continued military pressure on Al-Shabaab and expanding U.S.-Somali cooperation in pursuing transnational fraud and money-laundering suspects. Somali forces, backed b...
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...
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...
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...
Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi “Irro” arrived in Israel on Sunday in the first visit of its kind by a Somaliland leader, marking a new phase in relations between Hargeisa and Tel Aviv after Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as an ...
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...
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...
The current Iran-Israel escalation has pushed the region into a more dangerous phase. On Monday, June 8, 2026, Israel said it had struck military targets in western and central Iran after Tehran launched missiles toward Israel in response to an earlier Israeli str...
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...
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...
