Arab split over Red Sea security widens
Saudi-Egypt competition for leadership and dominance over the Red Sea intensifying as Riyadh assembles regional states to sign up to a new maritime security framework.
Cairo has long been resentful of the Saudi initiative to construct a Red Sea security framework it dominates.
Egypt sees itself as the quintessential No. 1 Red Sea power, in large part because of its control of the Suez chokepoint.
The North African state sees both Israel’s pivot to Somaliland and ongoing Saudi Red Sea ‘minilateralism’ as a threat.
Rashid Abdi
