Our Scans · Yemen · Weekly Summary

• [New] Yemen continues to experience one of the world's most serious hunger crises, with earlier estimates showing more than 18 million people could face severe food shortages. UN News
• [New] Sudan, South Sudan, Yemen and Palestine remain the most critical hotspots, while Nigeria and Somalia have moved into the highest-risk category amid growing concerns over famine. UN News
• [New] Extensive exceptional deficits will emerge late 2026 in southern Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Oman, but will be restricted to Yemen and Oman by 2027. ISCIENCES
• [New] Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed an attack on Israel and threatened to target Israeli-linked shipping in the Red Sea. The American Legion
• Yemen will remain the southern gateway to the Bab al-Mandeb, one of the world's most vital waterways. Al Jazeera
• Fears of air strikes and rising prices dominate everyday life in Sanaa as Yemen becomes embroiled in regional conflict. Al Jazeera
• Iranian state media threatened that Iran could seize Bahraini and Emirati territory if the US makes any mistakes, while signaling its readiness to open a new front in Yemen by closing the Bab al-Mandab Strait together with the Houthis. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
• Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and other areas could experience increased instability if negotiations fail. STL.News
• The Saudi-UAE rupture over Yemen has made the prospect of a unified GCC security response to the Iranian threat significantly more difficult. KBA13 INSIGHT
• Where the Houthis pose a much bigger threat is off the coast of Yemen. BBC News
• Yemen demonstrates the emergence of what might be termed modular ceasefires - agreements that apply selectively across actors and domains. www.lvivherald.com
• Increases in poverty rates were concentrated in the Levant and fragile countries (Sudan and Yemen), where baseline vulnerability is highest and shocks translate more strongly into welfare losses. Al Jazeera
• The Houthis in Yemen have threatened maritime routes such as the Bab al-Mandab Strait, raising concerns about disruptions to global trade and energy supplies. ICT
• The Houthi movement in Yemen, attempting to raise its regional profile through maritime attacks, exposed its own capacity limits and increased its diplomatic vulnerability. Ronin's Grips Analytics
• Corporate oligarchs might restore order where conventional forces have failed, such as in Yemen, where American airstrikes cannot defeat the Houthis and ground operations are prohibitively expensive. The New Atlantis
• Forces of the Yemen government might be preparing an offensive against them. The Jerusalem Post
• Vice President JD Vance and US envoys, including Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, will negotiate Iran's 10-point proposal covering nuclear constraints, sanctions relief, proxy activities in Lebanon and Yemen, and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, where traffic stays low. Polymarket
• By launching mass waves of threats from multiple directions (Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen), Iran aimed to overwhelm Israel's multi-layered defences with more targets than they could handle at once. Armstrong Economics
• Sixteen global hunger hotspots have been identified by the Food and Agriculture Organization and WFP, with six countries-Sudan, Gaza, South Sudan, Yemen, Mali, and Haiti-classified at the highest risk of famine. Farmers Review Africa
• Any military tensions in the sea off Yemen will paralyse the fishing sector, which supports approximately 500,000 Yemenis. Al Jazeera

Last updated: 25 June 2026