NEW YORK CITY: Disruptions to shipping in Bab Al-Mandeb Strait and the Strait of Hormuz are driving up energy and food prices and delaying shipments to Sudan, the World Food Programme’s acting executive director, Carl Skau, told Arab News on Monday. He warned that in Sudan the effects of the two shipping choke points were compounding one of the world’s largest hunger crises, and doing the same in Yemen. Sudan imports almost all of its fertilizer from the Gulf, but supplies have been sharply redu

Source: Arab News