Houthi movement

Houthi movement appears in roughly 1 monitored articles per day as of October 4, 2026. Mentions are down 52.9% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -5.66 — strongly negative.

The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah or Ansarullah, are a Zaydi revivalist and Shia Islamist political and paramilitary organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly made up of Zaydis, whose namesake leadership is drawn largely from the al-Houthi family. The Houthis are backed by Iran, and they are widely considered part of the Iranian-led Axis of Resistance.

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Also covered as: Houthis, Ansar Allah · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
1
mentioning this entity
Week over week
-52.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-5.66
strongly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Houthi movement mentions per day: 86 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-10-040.0050.0100Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Houthi movement coverage tone: 86 days, latest tone -5.66 on 2026-10-04+100-10Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Houthi movement: 89 days, latest 4663.00 on 2026-10-020.0050000100000Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 2

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).