Why retaking the coast will not yet reopen Bab el-Mandeb

Saudi-backed forces are fighting for the shoreline. Shipping risk, however, is set by missiles fired from far inland.

Saudi-backed forces are fighting for the shoreline. Shipping risk, however, is set by missiles fired from far inland, and that is the threat still standing.

On 5 October, Yemen’s Saudi-backed government announced that its forces had secured effective control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

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