The western section of the Indian Ocean, with its key trade routes and its maritime chokepoints, has faced no shortage of crises between disruptions caused by the Houthis in Yemen and their backers in the Islamic Republic of Iran. That situation has now been compounded by a returning Somali pirate problem. Somali pirates are demanding $10 million in exchange for an oil tanker that they seized off the coast of Yemen on May 2. The Togo-flagged Eur…
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