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Yemen: "The United Nations has begun an operation to defuse what might be the world's largest ticking time bomb," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement.
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Yemen: "The United Nations has begun an operation to defuse what might be the world's largest ticking time bomb," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement.
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.
According to the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen David Gressly, the movement of oil off the FSO Safer has started.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says a salvage team has begun siphoning oil out of a decaying oil tanker moored off the coast of Yemen
After years of warnings of a potential disaster, more than 1.1M barrels of oil is finally being siphoned off the FSO Safer.