Saudi Arabia and Emirates Face to Face in the Red Sea

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What was supposed to be an undercover shipment of military material ended up being the drop that filled the glass. On the last weekend of December, two ships that had departed from the Emirati port of Fujaira docked in the Yemeni city of Al Mukalla after deactivating their tracking systems and unloading weapons and combat vehicles. The cargo was destined for a southern secessionist group that, weeks earlier, had taken control of two provinces bo…