https://x.com/IbrahimJalalYE/status/2074857914116821443
08JUL2026 Ibrahim Jalal: Yemen's checkpoint war -Fragmented in the south, centralised in the north
Yemen's war is over a decade old, and checkpoints have become one of its most consequential features. Every truck carrying fuel, food or medicine along the country's main corridors must navigate dozens of them, paying levies to an overlapping cast of armed actors - formal, militia-linked, tribal, and rebel. A new working paper by Ibrahim Jalal provides the most comprehensive account yet of how this checkpoint system works, what it costs, and what it reveals about the competing political orders that have carved up the country.
https://pure.diis.dk/ws/files/32203821/DIIS-WP-series-Roadblocks-15-hierarchies.pdf