Resumen

MEDINA GUTIERREZ, Felipe. The Houthi movement(Ansar Allah) and the war in Yemen. Estud. Asia Áfr. [online]. 2020, vol.55, n.1, pp.79-112.  Epub 27-Mar-2020. ISSN 2448-654X.  https://doi.org/10.24201/eaa.v55i1.2581.

This article aims to contribute to the knowledge of the critical situation facing Yemen since the 2014 war, to the point of becoming the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world, even worse than in Syria. Mass media and researchers have focused on the nature of the war and its development, but they have omitted to make a critical analysis of the different actors in the conflict. One of them is the Houthi movement (also called Ansar Allah). This key player in the current war is deeply rooted in the country’s history, yet much remains unknown about it. This text tries to fill this information gap through an overview of its history and its relationship with Yemen; its religious, tribal, and political dimensions; and describing the movement by reviewing important historical events such as the Ṣaʿdah Wars (2004-2010), its role in the 2011 uprisings, and finally the great impact and power it has shown since the war in 2014.

Palabras llave : Yemen; Houthis; Ansar Allah; Zaydism; tribes.