Sudan Could Become the Red Sea’s Next Energy Security Flashpoint
The investigations published by The New York Times and The Washington Post should not be dismissed as another collection of allegations emerging from Sudan’s opaque civil war. Taken together, they present the most substantial publicly available evidence yet that elements of the Sudanese Armed Forces
Source: OilPrice.com
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Sudan's Red Sea coastline sits 900 miles from the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait — the chokepoint that carries 8.2 million barrels per day when it functions. With Hormuz effectively closed and oil at $96, any instability in Sudan is a direct threat to the last functioning Gulf-to-Europe route. The country has been in civil war since April 2023, but no one priced it as an energy variable until Hormuz shut.