🌍 Two strategic Middle East straits face growing risks to global trade

🔵 With Iran said to exert influence over the Strait of Hormuz, the Houthis are now claiming control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait following rapid developments on Yemen’s western coast

🔵 Yemen’s UN envoy Abdullah al-Saadi warns that the Houthis are seeking to impose a ‘new reality’ in the Red Sea and threaten navigation by gaining control of the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait

⚠ Any disruption in these two key waterways could have major consequences for global shipping, energy supplies and trade