BAB-EL-MANDEB – GEOGRAPHY
News: Bab
el-Mandeb | A strategic choke point
What's in the news?
● Houthi
attacks on tankers passing through the narrow Strait have disrupted one of the
busiest global shipping lanes, dragging the U.S. deeper into the conflict.
Bab el Mandeb:
● It
is a strait that connects the Red Sea
(northwest) with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean (southeast).
● It
is located between Arabia (northeast)
and Africa (southwest).
Features:
● It
is an important strategic connection in the marine commerce route connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the
Indian Ocean via the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.
● It
is one of the world’s most important seaborne commodity shipping routes,
primarily for crude oil and petroleum.
● Yemen
borders it on the Arabian Peninsula, and Djibouti and Eritrea border it on the
African coast.