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Oil tanker hijacking stokes fears of new disruption in Gulf region
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Since the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea, which borders western Yemen, has become a more critical route for global shipping.
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Pranav Baskar and Matthew Mpoke Bigg
Pirates from Somalia hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen on May 2 and have diverted it to Somalia’s waters, the authorities in Somalia said on May 3, in the third such incident in recent weeks.
The hijacking is an embarrassment for the government in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and suggests a resurgence of piracy at a time when the Red Sea, which borders western Yemen, has become an even more critical route for global shipping, given the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz amid the war in Iran.
