Explainer: Why is the Bab el-Mandeb Strait so important?
Major shippers and oil firms rerouted vessels around Africa as attacks in the Red Sea drove freight costs higher, according to industry data.
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Yemen's Houthis have a new form of 'attack', declaring a blockade against Saudi Arabia and targeting their oil shipments in the Red Sea.
The Houthis pro-Iran rebels of Yemen launched an attack that threatens maritime traffic through the strategic Strait of Bab el-Mandeb, crucial to Saudi Arabia since the blockade of the Strait of Ormuz. This is the situation in this passage, one of the most busy in the world, at a time when fighting escalates in Yemen, with hundreds of deaths in attacks and reprisals between the Houthis insurgents and Saudi Arabia. Where is it located? This narro…
Attacks by Houthi rebels in the Bab el Mandeb Strait endanger the maritime transport of oil. Discover the dimension of the conflict.
The Houthis pro-Iran rebels of Yemen launched an attack that threatens maritime traffic through the strategic Strait of Bab el-Mandeb, crucial to Saudi Arabia since the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, where 20% of world oil and gas production passed before the war in Iran. Read more (09/10/2026
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