Bab al-Mandeb is a strategic location where goods move between markets of Asia, Arabia, Europe and America, before finding their way to Africa, Fighting in the area means higher transportation cost through South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.

Washington also launches investigations into nine universities over allegations that international students are being used to undercut American wages.

US military has been ordered to prepare for potentially imminent strikes on Iran as Trump weighs the timing of an attack, multiple US media outlets report.

The former president has been put under treatment by doctors after falling ill, President Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed.

Pillay is the fifth South African to receive the prize.

Operators, under the proposed regulations, would be required to comply with provisions governing battery collection and recycling.