Middle Eastern maritime chokepoints: no windfall for southern Africa

Disruptions are making southern Africa more important to global shipping and energy markets without making the region more prosperous, writes Timothy Walker in ISS Today. Countermeasures to offset reduced energy exports shipped from Persian Gulf countries through the Strait of Hormuz are now failing, with significant global impacts, including for Africa. Saudi Arabia has prioritised its East-West pipeline to bypass the Strait of Hormuz by moving crude to the Red Sea port of Yanbu. But Houthi tar