New information obtained by Sheba Intelligence indicates that Yemeni fighters previously trained in the UAE, alongside Shabwani Elite elements, have arrived at a Somaliland camp as part of maritime and coastal preparations linked to Socotra and Bab al-Mandab security. ...
The Lower Shabelle operation reflects a more active Turkish role in Somalia’s counterterrorism campaign, as Al-Shabaab seeks to adapt to regional rivalries, Red Sea instability and emerging links with armed actors beyond Somalia. &nbs...
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...
Exclusive: intelligence sources have told Sheba Intelligence that Yemen’s Houthi movement is working to establish and activate a training camp in Somaliland, while separate information points to the arrival of additional UAE-linked fighters affiliated ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sheba Intelligence has resumed publication after a pause of nearly two years, returning with a broader editorial focus on information-led journalism, investigations, and analytical coverage from Yemen, Sudan and Somalia. The relaunch marks a new chapt...
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...
