Yemeni Government Forces says they have successfully taken control of Bab al-Mandab, Al Jazeera reports

Control of Bab al-Mandab is a chokepoint story first and a battlefield story second: the strait carries a material share of global seaborne trade and crude flows between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and episodes of contested control there have historically transmitted through freight rates, war-risk insurance premia and rerouting around the Cape rather than through any direct supply loss. The key distinction is between control of the shoreline and security of passage: in past episodes around this strait, littoral control by one party has not in itself restored shipping confidence, since the disruption has typically been driven by strike capability against vessels rather than by who holds the coast. The actors matter here: Yemeni government forces are one faction in a fragmented conflict, and claims of territorial control in this war have frequently been asserted, contested and reversed, so confirmation from independent channels is the first tell. The follow-ons are the response of the other parties to the conflict, any change in maritime advisories or insurance pricing for the strait, and whether tanker and container transits resume normal routing, which in previous Red Sea disruptions has lagged any political or military declaration by a wide margin. As a single-source report attributed to one party, the claim carries the usual fog-of-war discount.