Authors

Casey Coombs

Researcher

Casey Coombs is a researcher at the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies. Coombs also works as an independent journalist, reporting extensively on Yemen, where he was based between 2012 and 2015. Prior to Yemen, he reported from United Nations headquarters in New York, covering U.N. Security Council work on the Arab political uprisings.
 
He holds BAs in English & Anthropology and an MS in International Relations.

Contributions

Improving Relations Between Central State Institutions and Local Authorities

September 30, 2021 White Papers
In July 2018, the Rethinking Yemen’s Economy initiative published a White paper that explored how the collapse of Yemen’s economy and the fragmentation of central government institutions during the war affected local councils. This new White Paper builds on those findings by examining how local governance has evolved in the intervening years, with a focus on the relationship between local…