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Mapping the Yemen conflict | European Council on Foreign Relations

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Yemen’s president recently returned to the country after nearly six months in exile, but the conflict appears far from reaching a tidy conclusion, growing, if anything, more complicated by the day.

President Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi was forced to flee the country by the Houthis - a Zaidi Shia-led rebel group targeted in six wars by the central government - and their new-found allies in the Yemeni Armed Forces, including many key backers of the country’s former leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh. This prompted an ongoing, Saudi-led military campaign aiming to restore Yemen’s internationally-recognised government to power, and now President Hadi and his Prime Minister and Vice President Khaled Bahah have returned to the port city of Aden.

Rather than being a single conflict, the unrest in Yemen is a mosaic of multifaceted regional, local and international power struggles, emanating from both recent and long-past events. The following maps aim to illustrate distinct facets of this conflict, and illuminate some rarely discussed aspects of Yemen’s ongoing civil war.

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Is a Houthi takeover of Sanaa in the works ?

– Al Arabiya News 2014/08/31/I Dr. Theodore Karasik

In recent weeks and days, the Houthis have marched into the capital of Yemen, Sanaa, and made their intentions clear. Tens of thousands of Houthi supporters have been rallying in the capital for a second week, setting up tents near ministries and sending their armed men to take positions on rooftops. The moves alarmed Yemini security authorities and prompted Yemeni President Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi to order the deployment of Special Forces to the capital. The Houthis are seeking to take over the city in a power play that portends dramatic consequences for the near future of the country and for the rest of the Arabian Peninsula region.

The Houthis waged a six-year insurgency in the north against former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh that officially ended in 2010. After Saleh’s ouster, they have fought ultraconservative Islamists in several northern locations. Over the past weeks, the Houthis battled and defeated the Muslim Brotherhood group and its political arm, the Islah party.

The crisis between Hadi and the Houthis is destabilizing the country. Recently, Hadi said the power transition in the country is at the stake as the Houthis continue to mobilize their supporters to protest and threaten to topple the government by force. While the Houthis are considered a political partner and participated in the national dialog conference process, the Houthi, specifically the Hashid tribal coalition, are using the confrontation with Hadi to make political gains. For them, Hadi is a transitional figure and his implementation of oil subsidy reforms plus the six-region Yemeni federal plan, are drivers that help the Houthis gather more support. In addition, the Houthis are attempting to be the main force in the country and take control of policy making in Sanaa. Clearly, tribal politics in Yemen are going to trump external efforts to influence the outcome in Sanaa.

The Houthis possess a well-thought out plan for taking Sanaa. They dug a tunnel near Saleh’s property in an assassination attempt as Saleh still represents a substantial amount of influence in the capital. In a statement published by the state-run Saba News Agency, the Supreme Security Committee, headed by Hadi, said that “the security apparatus began investigating the matter and found a tunnel dug inside a warehouse to the north of Saleh’s house on Sakher Street in the capital.”❞