Sniffing Out Red Sea Access, US in Line to Be Eritrea's Latest Suitor
The talks come as the United States seeks leverage after Houthi threats and a $10 billion hit to Egypt’s Suez Canal revenues, officials said.
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Martin PlautUS to lift Eritrea sanctions as Red Sea tensions reshape alliances, document says
May 5 - The United States is set to remove sanctions against Eritrea, according to an internal U.S. government document seen by Reuters, a decision analysts linked to the African state's strategic location on the Red Sea shipping route. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Sniffing out Red Sea access, US in line to be Eritrea's latest suitor
Recent reports revealed that the Trump administration has been quietly pursuing normalization of ties with Eritrea, a small nation in the Horn of Africa with a 700-mile coastline on the Red Sea, sitting directly opposite Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen at the entrance of the Bab al-Mandeb strait.With the U.S. locked in a war with Iran that has closed the Strait of Hormuz and roiled global energy markets, an ally on the Red Sea has never loo…
Objective: to protect the Strait of Bab el Mandeb from regional tensions. To maintain stability, the US focuses on Eritrea.The European missions Aspides and Atalanta, which must guarantee free movement, respond to different headquarters and do not share the data.And the African countries continue to be wary of the former colonial powers.The special contains two articles.Read more
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