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Emerging Houthi–Al-Shabaab co-operation and the growing threat to Red Sea shipping

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par Brendon Novel, Candidat au doctorat en science politique, Université de Montréal

In a region crucial to global trade, ideological rivals may now be working together. United Nations and American intelligence reports suggest that Yemen’s Houthi insurgents and the Somali group Al-Shabaab — considered Al-Qaeda’s strongest affiliate — are exchanging logistical and military resources, despite having no formal alliance.

These reported exchanges involve military technology, potentially expanding Al-Shabaab’s operational reach beyond Somalia and…

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