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Small Bab el-Mandeb island could become strategically important for global oil supplies

A CNN report says a small rocky island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait could become important to global oil supply routes.

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The strait is a strategic maritime chokepoint, so developments affecting it could disrupt energy shipping.

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