How shipping insurance rates are rising, as Hormuz, Bab al-Mandeb shut down
Insurance rates through Hormuz are currently four times the five-year average.

Insurance rates through Hormuz are currently four times the five-year average.









Rescue operation recovers 266 survivors as UN warns deadliest season on the route is just beginning.
A Malta-flagged tanker heading from Sikka, India, to Durban, South Africa, was targeted by suspected Somali pirates.
Ismail Omar Guelleh could seek re-election in 2026 after parliament votes to removes age restriction for candidates.
Two goals from Salah and one from Adel make Egypt the third African country after Morocco and Tunisia to book a berth.
The International Organization for Migration says group of 150 were forced off boat by smugglers to swim to shore.
UN migration agency says two bodies recovered off Djibouti while dozens of migrants and five Yemeni crew remain missing.
The boats were traversing a sea route described as one of the busiest and most dangerous in the world.
At least 28 others are missing after a boat carrying 77 asylum seekers sinks, according to the UN’s migration agency.
Many hundreds have died in the Gulf of Aden while trying to reach Saudi Arabia through Yemen.

With women killed at alarming rates in Kenya, is the government doing enough to end gender-based violence?