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 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...
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...
Recent popular protests in the provinces of Aden and Hadramout indicate escalating tensions in these critical southern and eastern regions, which are currently entangled in a political conflict over control of power and resources. Aden: Abduction of Officer Sparks Pot...
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 plight of Yemen's fishermen extends far beyond the nation's war-torn economy. Along the Red Sea coast, they face relentless challenges, including harassment by Eritrean authorities and the depletion of marine resources by foreign vessels. Fishing trips have trans...
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, ...
Introduction: Yemen is grappling with a disturbing rise in rape cases, transforming what were once rare and isolated incidents into a pervasive threat to the social fabric. The situation is particularly alarming as many victims are minors and children. Areas controlled by the Ho...
The Hadramout Inclusive Conference has given the local authorities in Hadramout province a 30-day deadline to address the deterioration of the living situation and the continued collapse of services, threatening to escalate if its demands are ignored. A statement released yesterday b...
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...
The seven-day UN-sponsored talks on Yemen ended in Muscat yesterday without reaching tangible results on the swap of prisoners. The parties to the conflict in Yemen, the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group and the Yemeni government confirmed the end of this round of negotiations, saying that anot...
It has been four days since the Yemeni government and the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group began a new round of talks on prisoner swap in Oman. Today, the two sides have declared one of the agreements they have reached. The Houthis have agreed to reveal the fate of Mohammed Qahtan, a ...
The Ansar Allah (Houthi) war of words on Saudi Arabia has intensified over the past few days. This has come after the Houthi group seized four planes owned by Yemenia Airways, leaving over 1300 Yemeni pilgrims stranded in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. A meeting by the Houthi Supreme Politi...
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 ...
The parties to the conflict in Yemen arrived in Muscat yesterday to initiate a new round of negotiation on a prisoner swap amid rising tensions on several battlefronts in several Yemeni provinces. The delegations of the UN-recognized government and the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group decl...
