The importance of the Strait of Bab el Mandeb in that one the most important waterways in the world and the most embraced ships, where the links between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, which handles each year 25 thousand ships represent 7% of the global navigation, and increase its importance because of its association with the Suez Canal and the passageway Strait of Hormuz
Houthis seeks to control the strait through the control of the coastal city of Mokha (60 kilometers east of the strait), experiencing days intensive military movements of al-Huthi group since, in conjunction with the opening of the group weeks before a major office in the city
Yemen has a strategy to control the Strait of possession Prem Island preference, but the major powers and their allies worked to establish military bases proximity and around and the World because of its importance in trade and transport, as the United States has a base in Djibouti on the West Bank of the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, and France has also an old military presence in Djibouti
The United Nations has sought in 1982 to organize the subject of international waterways known as Jamaica and its agreement to the Convention entered into force in November 1994
And remain important Bab al-Mandab linked survival of the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz First Second open for navigation, especially in front of oil tankers, and any threat to the two corridors or alone Suez Canal to prevent ships via the Cape of Good Hope
The importance of the Bab al-Mandab remained limited until the 1869 opening of the Suez Canal, linking the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea and followed his world, translated into one of the most important transport corridors and border crossings on the coast road between European and Mediterranean countries, and the world of the Indian Ocean and eastern Africa
And increased its importance as one of the most important sea lanes in the world, with the growing importance of Persian Gulf oil, it is estimated the number of ships and oil tankers giant with it in both directions, with more than 21,000 pieces freely annually (57 pieces per day
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