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Yemen’s Vulnerability to Climate Change: How to Strengthen Adaptation
Yemen’s Vulnerability to Climate Change: How to Strengthen Adaptation

February 21, 2024 Analysis

Helen Lackner

This policy brief summarizes the environmental issues Yemen faces and outlines policy and technical responses to limit their impact. These include environmental problems caused by the absence of state intervention or by misguided policies, and those that are symptoms of global warming, pointing out the frequent synergy between them. Yemen, like other developing countries, suffers the consequences of climate change…
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Houthi Red Sea Attacks Increase Shipping Costs

Houthi Red Sea Attacks Increase Shipping Costs

December 27, 2023 Yemen Review section

The seizure of an Israeli-linked ship by Houthi forces in the Red Sea and repeated attacks on commercial shipping threaten to pile additional pressure on Yemen’s economy by raising the costs of imports. Shipping to Yemen already incurs increased transport and logistics costs due to its designation as a “high risk” area. According to a 2021 UNDP assessment, war premiums,…
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Challenges to Yemen’s Public Revenues
Challenges to Yemen’s Public Revenues

December 19, 2023 Main Publications

Ned Whalley

Sana’a Center Economic Unit

Since April 2022, the war in Yemen has mutated from a high-casualty conflict to a protracted stalemate with relatively stable frontlines. The contest is now over the economy, as the Houthi group (Ansar Allah) leverages negotiations and its military power to put fiscal pressure on the internationally recognized government. The current phase has been marked by the expansion of economic…
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Blackouts and Blackholes: Yemen’s Vanishing Electricity Supply

Sana'a Center Editorial Blackouts and Blackholes: Yemen’s Vanishing Electricity Supply

November 20, 2023 Yemen Review section

One of the most visceral signs of state collapse in Yemen isn’t frontline fighting or food insecurity – it’s the inability of the internationally recognized government to provide electricity. For several years now, the approach of summer has meant bracing for extended blackouts in many parts of the country. With the intense heat and humidity, life becomes almost unbearable for…
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Prime Minister Denies Allegations of Government Corruption

Prime Minister Denies Allegations of Government Corruption

November 20, 2023 Yemen Review section

Prime Minister Maeen Abdelmalek Saaed denied allegations of corruption against his government made in a parliamentary report during a press conference on September 4. The alleged violations include mismanagement and corruption amounting to YR2.8 trillion (approximately US$1.9 billion) across the electricity, energy, telecommunications, and financial sectors. Saaed attacked the report of a parliament fact-finding committee, calling the accusations malicious and…
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Cyclone Tej Undescores Yemen’s Climate Crisis Ahead of COP 28
Cyclone Tej Undescores Yemen’s Climate Crisis Ahead of COP 28

November 20, 2023 Analysis

Musaed Aklan

Cyclone Tej struck Yemen in the last week of October, ripping through the archipelago of Socotra, making landfall in the governorate of Al-Mahra, and wreaking havoc in Hadramawt, Shabwa, and Al-Dhalea. The cyclone brought rainfall and severe flooding, destroyed homes and roads, cut off electricity and communication networks, and displaced thousands of families. According to the Yemen Red Crescent Society,…
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Corruption in Hadramawt’s Electricity Sector
Corruption in Hadramawt’s Electricity Sector

November 1, 2023 Main Publications

Ali Yahya Abdullah

Nabhan Abdullah bin Nabhan

Casey Coombs

Since the summer of 2019, protests have become a fixture across Hadramawt in reaction to the poor provision of electricity. Although the governorate is far from the frontlines and home to most of the country’s oil reserves, it has not escaped destabilizing aspects of the conflict, including the erosion of the rule of law and the emergence of war profiteering.…
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Recovering Lost Ground in Shabwa’s Oil Sector
Recovering Lost Ground in Shabwa’s Oil Sector

August 24, 2023 Main Publications

Majd Ibrahim

Casey Coombs

Shabwa’s oil sector has developed in fits and starts. Its first commercially viable oil reserves were discovered in 1987 when the governorate was still part of South Yemen. In 1990, South Yemen united with North Yemen to form the Republic of Yemen, which enlisted foreign energy companies to help develop the nascent oil industry. This included the construction of a…
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Saudi Arabia Announces US$1.2 Billion in New Financial Support

Saudi Arabia Announces US$1.2 Billion in New Financial Support

August 15, 2023 Yemen Review section

Long-waited financial support for the government finally materialized after it reached a dire fiscal situation in June and July. On August 1, Saudi Arabia announced it would support the internationally recognized government with a US$1.2 billion grant to finance the public budget and prop up the value of the Yemeni rial. Saudi Ambassador to Yemen Mohammed al-Jaber stated that the…
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Saudi-UAE Spat Comes to a Head in Hadramawt

Saudi-UAE Spat Comes to a Head in Hadramawt

August 15, 2023 Yemen Review section

The developing rift between Saudi Arabia and its coalition partner, the UAE, has come out into the open in recent weeks. The Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi Crown Prince and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman told journalists that the UAE had “stabbed them in the back,” and threatened to take direct action against its gulf rival. The deterioration…
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