On January 1, 2024, Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed attended the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Addis Ababa. This agreement allows Ethiopia to use a Somaliland port, providing the landlocked nation access to the Gulf of Aden. This MoU has caused heightened tensions in the already […]
Historically, the Royal Oman Police (ROP) have focused on crimes such as smuggling, drug activities, traffic violations, local fights, scams, and other petty offenses. However, a recent attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as Daesh, Islamic State (IS), and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has […]
April 24, 2024 – Today marks the 8th anniversary of the liberation of the strategic Yemeni port city of Mukalla in the southern eastern Hadramawt governorate from the grips of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Hadramawt, Yemen’s largest governorate, is more sparsely populated than the west of the country. The area is largely […]
On February 2, 2024 U.S. forces launched retaliatory airstrikes against 85 Iranian targets in Iraq and Syria. These series of strikes were in response to the recent Iranian-backed militia strikes in Jordan that killed 3 U.S. service members on January 28. Syrian state-run news outlet Sana reported strikes in the cities of Deir al-Zour, Albu […]
Navanti’s data collection and analysis are based on networks of on-the-ground researchers from all walks of life: journalists, academics, and humanitarian workers, to name a few. Our analysts also keep abreast of open source reports to inform their work. Below, these analysts have summarized and contextualized the most important pieces they have read and listened […]