it has been mentioned in the yemen zaidet history sources that the hawiye clan was weeping over the death of al imam al hadi yahya bin hussain the imam of the zaidete imamate of yemen.
ibnu batuta says the inhabitents of zeila were a mix of rafida(SHIA) and shafia.
the sheekhaal clan aw xasan, aw mahdi were breaching zaidia in somalia but they fall because of the sunni influenced sufism qadiria later on.