ABSTRACT
There are many dangers in the world today, the main concern being the horrific possibility of nuclear conflict which even overshadows the tension in the Middle East, and yet there are other areas of importance to world peace: one such is the Red Sea. This chapter deals with Bab al-Mandab, the Horn of Africa, the Suez Canal and the Strait of Sharm al-Sheikh. Bab al-Mandab and the Horn of Africa are, in the writer's opinion, at far greater risk than either the Suez Canal or Sharm al-Sheikh. For that reason, it concentrates on the southern end of the Red Sea, rather than the two narrows to the north where, unless there is a new dispute between Egypt and Israel, the portents for peace seem far better. The Horn of Africa nominally embraces Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, but that part which most resembles a horn is all in Somalia.
