Attacks by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militants on ships in the Red Sea are disrupting maritime trade and prompting U.S. efforts to build a coalition to deal with the threat, as freight firms reroute around the Cape of Good Hope to avoid the Suez Canal. The Houthi group said it launched a drone attack on two cargo vessels in the area on Monday, the latest in a series of missile and drone strikes on shipping which it says are a response to Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip. About 15% of world shipping traffic transits via the Suez Canal, the shortest shipping route between Europe and Asia. As Houthi Red Sea attacks force rerouting of commercial vessels, and threaten a wider regional conflict, FRANCE 24's Nadia Massih is joined by Dr Elisabeth Kendall, Senior Research Fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies in Pembroke College at Oxford and The Mistress Specialising in Arabic and Islamic Studies in Girton College at Cambridge.
