Bab el-Mandeb closure would be catastrophic for whole world: Qatar

A closure of the critical Bab el-Mandeb Strait would be "catastrophic for the entire world", a senior Qatari official said. "The world is suffering enough with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz...we cannot also afford to add the Bab el-Mandeb into that equation," he added. The warning comes after Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis expanded control over the crucial waterway.