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Although Saada’s status as the capital of the Imamate was often overshadowed by other cities, such as Sana’a, Shibam, Zabid, or Taiz, the mountainous northwestern region of Yemen, where Saada is located, remained the Imamate’s final stronghold throughout its history. [5]
Saada has been a site of violent confrontations for years between the Yemeni government and the rebels known as the Houthi movement. The conflict was sparked in June 2004 by Ali Abdullah Saleh government's attempt to arrest Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, the Zaydi religious leader who founded the Houthi movement and a former Al-Haqq parliamentarian on whose head the government had placed a US ...
Saada (Arabic: صَعْدَة, romanized: Ṣaʿdah) or Sa'dah is one of the governorates of Yemen. The governorate's seat and the largest city is Saada . It is the epicentre of Zaydism [ 2 ] and where the Houthi group originates from.
As of 2023, Yemen has five sites on the list. The first site, the Old Walled City of Shibam, was designated in 1982. The most recent site listed was Landmarks of the Ancient Kingdom of Saba in Marib in 2023. [4] The Socotra Archipelago was listed in 2008, and it is the only natural site in Yemen, while the other four are cultural. [3]
According to a report made in 1999 by the US state department, Approximately 500 Jews were scattered in a handful of villages between Sana'a and Saada in northern Yemen. [2] David Carasso, a Jewish merchant from Thessaloniki, spent his years 1874–9 in Yemen, and described the Saada Jews as “warrior Jews”. He also mentioned the good ...
In September 2014, the Saada-based Houthis took control of Sana'a after a brief battle with government forces, ending in an agreement with the government. Though AQAP had previously "declared war" on the Houthis in 2011, significant fighting never occurred as the Houthis were active predominantly in northern Yemen until then. [2]
UNICEF said the hospital in Saada was the 39th health center hit in Yemen since March, when the violence escalated. "More children in Yemen may well die from a lack of medicines and healthcare than from bullets and bombs," its executive director Anthony Lake said in a statement. He added that critical shortages of fuel, medication, electricity ...
The history of this dynasty is obscure; they never exercised control over the highlands and Hadramawt, and did not control more than a coastal strip of the Yemen bordering the Red Sea. [61] A Himyarite clan called the Yufirids established their rule over the highlands from Saada to Taiz , while Hadramawt was an Ibadi stronghold and rejected all ...