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Pirates ahoy: Why battling Houthis will be tougher than Somali raiders
Commercial ships are again under attack — but this time their assailants are better equipped and pursuing political objectives.
Commercial ships sailing off the coast of Africa are again facing heavily armed men attacking from speedboats — prompting a wide-ranging naval response, encouraging cargo vessels to station armed guards on board, and convincing shippers to divert into safer waters.
- Jeremy Van der Haegen and Antonia Zimmermann
- Politico
But the menace posed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on the Red Sea is very different from that of Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa over a decade ago — and beating them back may prove more difficult.
“The threat from…