The Strait of Hormuz, a checkepoint barely 21 kilometres wide at its narrowest, remains the single most consequential waterway in the global economy and 2026 has proven, once again, that no region feels its tremors more painfully than ordinary citizens in the West African sub-region, even though not a single barrel of their own crude passes through it. A Checkepoint That Still Rules the World An average of 20 million barrels of crude and oil products moved through the Strait of Hormuz in 2Read More
Straits of Hormuz Still Controls the World’s Oil Pipe and West Africa’s Citizens Are Paying the Price
