Recent disruptions affecting shipping routes through the Red Sea have drawn attention to the vulnerability of global trade corridors. The Red Sea serves as a critical maritime gateway linking Asia, Europe, and Africa through the Suez Canal, one of the world’s most important shipping channels. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, approximately 10 percent of global trade passes through this corridor annually.
Horn of Africa security
Ethiopia–Eritrea: Peace in Jeopardy as Rhetoric Turns Sharp
By Africa Risk Control (ARC) – It begins with memory. For most people who lived through the late 1990s, the words “Eritrea” and “Ethiopia” still carry the weight of the Badme war — a brutal interstate conflict from 1998 to 2000 that left tens of thousands dead, hundreds of thousands displaced, and an entire border region traumatised.