Details About Hodeidah

Hodeidah is situated on the western coast, north of the Bab-al-Mandab strait that separates Asia and Africa, or more specifically, Yemen from Djibouti, and lies on the southern Red Sea. The city grew in the 19th century under the Ottoman Empire but much of it was destroyed in 1961 by a devastating fire: from the ashes grew a new Hodeidah with a new, larger, more modern and more efficient port. In this period of growth the business world and Soviet aid played a fundamental role.