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Spotlight | Djibouti, Somalia
Beijing and Washington battle it out for Bab-el-Mandeb

With the diplomatic and economic tit-for-tat between the US president Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping in full swing, control of the commercial maritime traffic through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait - which accounts for 40% of world trade - has become [...]

Published on 31.08.2018 at 03:30 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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