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New York: The UN on Tuesday began siphoning one million barrels of oil from a decaying supertanker off the coast of war-torn Yemen, a crucial step in the race against time to prevent a potential environmental disaster.

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The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has started implementing a project to prevent a massive oil spill from a supertanker off Yemen's Red Sea coast with the removal of more than 1 million barrels of oil from the decaying vessel.

I am looking at a photo from this May’s G7 Health Minister’s meeting in Japan. Aside from the fact that this group, discussing global health issues, contains just one representative from the entire African continent (remember more than one in five people on earth live here), one other thing jumps out: Of the eleven people standing on the stage, just one is a woman.

After nearly two years of “political groundwork, fundraising, and project development”, in the words of UN chief António Guterres, the UN-led operation to avert environmental disaster in the Red Sea of the Yemeni coast, is fully underway. |

The UN-led project to prevent a massive oil spill from the FSO Safer supertanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast began today with the removal of more than 1 million barrels of oil from the decaying vessel.

The Safer has been at risk of breaking up or exploding for years

The supertanker, with more than a million barrels of oil, has been deteriorating since 2015.

The UN on Tuesday began siphoning one million barrels of oil from a decaying supertanker off the coast of war-torn Yemen, a crucial step in the race against time to prevent a potential environmental disaster. The supertanker, the FSO Safer, became a symbol ...

Disputes are also expected over ownership of the oil and the Nautica, pitting the Huthis against the Aden-based government.