"rebalancing trade, ensuring a positive business environment, and promoting security and peace."
"terrorist organization who, with the support of the Iranian regime, pose a continuing threat to regional stability and freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and surrounding waterways."
"The visit signals how the US views East Africa and the Red Sea as a single interconnected strategic theater. The choice of these countries was not accidental. It was deliberate, strategic and it was conscious."
Christopher Landau is on a diplomatic tour of Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti from January 24 to February 1 to promote US priorities of rebalancing trade, ensuring a positive business environment, and promoting security and peace. Landau described the trip as one of the great privileges of his job. Three of the four visited countries participate in a US-led multinational naval force in the Red Sea defending against Houthi attacks, and the US maintains a robust military presence to deter those threats. Tammy Bruce labeled the Houthis a terrorist organization backed by Iran that threatens regional stability and freedom of navigation. Some analysts interpret the visit as part of a broader US effort to assert influence in the interconnected strategic theater of East Africa and the Red Sea. The Red Sea region spans from the Suez Canal through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to the Gulf of Aden and includes Egypt, Eritrea, Djibouti, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, forming a critical maritime corridor for global trade.
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