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...
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...
Sheba Intelligence has obtained exclusive information indicating that the Houthi group, through its external intelligence sector and a specialized intelligence station operating in Muscat, has sought to obtain Chinese satellite imagery, coordinates and related geospatial capabilities to ...
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 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...
Sheba Intelligence has obtained information from intelligence sources indicating that the Houthi group, working with cross-border smuggling networks, has transferred low-cost Iranian military technology — particularly missiles and drones — to armed groups in Sud...
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...
In late May, security authorities in Hadramout, eastern Yemen, announced the dismantling of four illegal gold mining and processing workshops in the city of Mukalla, only one week after a similar workshop had been seized. The Criminal Investigation Department of Hadr...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...