Yassin HOUSSEIN ABDI 🇩🇯

Docteur en géohistoire - Spécialiste des environnements côtiers et de la gouvernance des dynamiques territoriales. Chercheur à l'IEPS/CERD, Djibouti.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces have officially withdrawn from Perim Island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, leaving the island at the strait's narrowest point to Yemen's Houthis, per two Yemeni government sources to Reuters.

In just 24 hours the Houthis have taken Mocha, Dhubab, Zuqar Island, Hisn Murad and Perim, more than 3,000 sq. km, and now hold every point on the Yemeni side of the strait from the Red Sea coast down to its narrowest crossing.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: The Houthis have swept through the last stretch of Yemen’s Red Sea coast, completing an 18-hour offensive that gives them full control of the entire Red Sea coastline, reports our correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/x4hppEUXjX

[IEPS @IEPS_IEPSCERD]

🇩🇯🤝🇸🇴 Renforcer la coopération régionale par la recherche et le dialogue stratégique.

Cette rencontre entre l’IEPS et la Somali Public Agenda a permis d’échanger sur le développement économique, les opportunités d’investissement entre Djibouti et la Somalie, ainsi que sur les perspectives de collaboration entre les deux institutions.

Une dynamique qui contribue au renforcement des partenariats de recherche et des échanges sur les enjeux d’intérêt commun dans la Corne de l’Afrique.

#Djibouti #Somalia #HornOfAfrica #Cooperation

[IEPS @IEPS_IEPSCERD]

Cette semaine, une équipe de l’Institut d’Études Politiques et Stratégiques (IEPS) s’est rendue à Mouloud, dans le district de Dikhil, dans le cadre d’une enquête socio-économique consacrée au co-compostage.

La mission a permis d’échanger avec des propriétaires et exploitants agro-pastoraux locaux et d’effectuer plusieurs visites de parcelles agricoles, afin de recueillir des informations utiles à l’étude en cours.

#Dikhil #Mouloud #IEPS #CERD #CoCompostage

[Erik Thurman is illustrating for a better future @ErikThurman]

I don't mean this as some sort of gotcha for the OP, but really the entire World Cup should have been boycotted the moment the US prevented the Irani team from remaining in the country after every day. We are here precisely because no action was taken there.

[Tiago Barbosa @tiagobarbosa_]

A Fifa proibiu camisa da independência do Haiti.

Aceitou os EUA barrar árbitro da Somália.

Acatou os EUA impedir torcedor da RD Congo.

Ignorou o Irã ser banido dos EUA a cada jogo.

E, agora, cancela cartão vermelho a pedido de Trump.

Não é Copa - é recreio do imperialismo.

[Actu Foot @ActuFoot_]

L’incroyable phrase d’accroche de @vincentduluc dans L’Équipe du jour (ça vaut la peine de tout lire) :

« À part le prix scandaleux des places, le chaos des visas, l’interdiction faite aux Iraniens de dormir dans la ville américaine où ils jouent et à un arbitre somalien de participer à la Coupe du monde pour laquelle il avait été sélectionné, le coût écologique exorbitant, la menace de voir la police anti-immigration aux portes des enceintes sportives, la nécessité de casser son PEL pour aller au stade en transports en commun, le bouleversement du football en quatre quart-temps pour plaire au marché publicitaire et le sentiment qu’en étant prête à toutes les compromissions avec Donald Trump, la FIFA a perdu à la fois son pouvoir et son honneur, LA COUPE DU MONDE, VRAIMENT, VA ÊTRE UNE BELLE FÊTE. » 😭🥶

🗞️ @lequipe

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali.

The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful.

https://t.co/rpSgTmmPU4

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Iranian Football Federation announces the 8% ticket quota allocated to Iran has been revoked by the U.S., leaving the federation currently unable to distribute tickets to supporters.

A case study in political interference, discrimination and FIFA looking the other way.

[Nima Tavallaey Roodsari @NimaTavRood]

So far at the 2026 FIFA Epstein Cup before a ball kicked:
- Senegal & Uzbekistan squads treated like criminals upon arrival given full cavity searches;
- Africa’s best referee sent back to Somalia despite having a diplomatic passport;
- Iraq team photographer sent back despite valid visa;
- AIPS (international sport journalist association) calling on FIFA to sort out unacceptable visa issues of African & Iranian journalists;
- 90% of Moroccan fans with tickets denied entry
- 14 members of Iran backroom staff denied visas

Not a word from Gianni ”today I feel black/gay/disabled etc” Infantino.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

Iraqi footballer Aymen Hussein issued a statement after being detained and questioned for seven hours upon entering the United States:

“If America is so hostile towards foreign nationals, why is it hosting the #2026WorldCup?”

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Visa refusals for journalists from Iran, Senegal, Ivory Coast mean this World Cup is a disaster before it even begins
https://t.co/b4I4JUZP3N

[IEPS @IEPS_IEPSCERD]

Le lundi 11 mai 2026 s’est tenue au CERD une réunion de travail entre l’Institut d’Études Politiques et Stratégiques (IEPS) et la fondation allemande Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, partenaire de l’institut dans plusieurs projets de réflexion et de recherche.

[🇨🇳 Guo Shen 郭深 @GuoShenCN7]

IRAN JUST PUBLISHED THE EXACT LIST OF TARGETS THEY WILL STRIKE IF THE US HITS THEM AGAIN — AND NAMED THE PRICE FOR TOUCHING THE STRAIT

Not vague threats. Not "we will respond." NAMED FACILITIES. SPECIFIC BASES. Country by country.

🇧🇭 US 5th Fleet Headquarters, Bahrain → commands ALL US naval operations across the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and Arabian Sea → struck with ballistic missiles and drones
🇰🇼 Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait → primary US Air Force staging hub for the entire Gulf theater → struck
🇰🇼 Camp Arifjan, Kuwait → US Army forward logistics hub → struck
🇦🇪 Oil tanker near Dubai → civilian commercial shipping → struck
🇮🇷 Trigger: US strikes on Qeshm Island + Iranian tanker near the Strait of Hormuz → Iran's stated response: 1.5x as hard, every single time
🇸🇦 Strait of Hormuz → explicitly named by IRGC as the enforcement mechanism → "disrupting its security will have a heavy price for the invading US military"

💀 4 named targets struck simultaneously in a single wave
💀 The US 5th Fleet HQ has never been struck in its operational history — Bahrain just became a front line
💀 ZERO tit-for-tat remaining — Iran publicly abandoned proportional response
💀 100% of the targets are US military command and logistics infrastructure — not symbolic

Every target on this list keeps American power projection in the Gulf alive. Not civilians. COMMAND NODES.

Iran's new doctrine is still active. Every US self-defense strike now triggers a guaranteed 1.5x response. And the Strait of Hormuz — carrying 20% of the world's oil — is the named price tag.

Follow and turn on notifications before it's too late.

[Iran in Mumbai @IRANinMumbai]

US strikes an Iranian tanker near #Hormuz.

#Iran hits a US-Israeli vessel.

US then strikes a communications tower.

Iran responds with missile & drone attacks on a regional US airbase & the US Fifth Fleet HQ.

Harsher responses as promised.

#Trump #War

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran has launched a massive ballistic missile and drone attack, striking the US 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain along with US bases in Kuwait, Ali Al Salem + Arifjan, and an oil tanker near Dubai, in response to new US strikes on Qeshm Island and an Iranian oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, per Tasnim.

Iran says it has officially abandoned tit-for-tat retaliation, now striking back "at least 1.5x as hard" for every US attack, with IRGC warning "disrupting the security of the Strait of Hormuz will have a heavy price for the invading US military."

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Iran is targeting US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Iraq following US attacks on Qeshm Island

Iran seems to have recognized that deterrence can only be established by forcing the US regime - the mafia co-opted by Greater Israel - to recognize every terrorist action has a cost

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

DO NOT TURN A BLIND EYE TO THIS. HOLY SHIT.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia occupies of Ukraine.

But of course that's a 'good' invasion.

So there is silence.

[Rodney FWI @RodneyFWI]

Même les nazis n'ont pas bombardé le château de Versailles ou la Tour Eiffel