The geopolitical position of the Red Sea is of a special importance. Being a natural border between the eastern coast of Africa and the western coast of the Arabian Peninsula, it is a vital route for the transportation of oil through Bab el-Mandeb in the south to the Suez Canal in the North. As a result of this new role the importance of the Red Sea increased. read more
The most important geopolitical outcome of the Saudi-led Yemen intervention and diplomatic campaign has been the assertion of geostrategic control over almost the entire African and Asian shores of the Red Sea from the straits of Bab al Mandab to the Tiran strait and the Suez Canal. read more