Power vacuum in Yemen threatens biodiversity of the one-of-a-kind Socotra archipelago

Power vacuum in Yemen threatens biodiversity of the one-of-a-kind Socotra archipelago

Up until very recently, Socotra had not received much international news coverage. Mention of the paradisaical Yemeni archipelago in the Indian Ocean, located near the Gulf of Aden, was typically limited to travel magazines and tourism guides. But at the end of December, some 600 visitors became stranded there, due to tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, allies that now have conflicting interests in the southern region of …