Red Sea on the Brink of Environmental Catastrophe
Red Sea on the Brink of Environmental Catastrophe Mina Nader Abandoned, rebel-held Yemeni tanker could spill four times as much oil as Exxon Valdez [CAIRO] The Red Sea has been flirting with environmental disaster for six years, ever since Houthi rebels seized control of the FSO Safer, a floating storage and offloading vessel for petroleum moored north of the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah. Last year it began to leak. Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the de facto president of Yemen, in a tweet congratulating the Egyptian government on the reopening of the Suez Canal last week, warned of a greater cri...
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