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SANAA, July 10 (Xinhua) -- The transfer of crude oil from the dilapidated tanker Safer, stranded off the coast of Yemen, is expected to start early next week, a United Nations humanitarian official said on Monday.
The transfer of crude oil from a decaying tanker off Yemen will begin early next week, the United Nations said Monday of an operation aimed at preventing a damaging Red Sea spill.The 47-year-old FSO Safer, long used as a floating storage platform and now abandoned off the rebel-held Yemeni port of Hodeida, has not been serviced since the Arabian Peninsula country plunged into civil war more than eight years ago.A team of experts in May started inspecting conditions aboard the vessel and kickstarted preparations for the operation.
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During a briefing to the UN Security Council, it was reported that the oil transfer from the decaying FSO Safer off the coast of Yemen is scheduled to...
Sporadic armed clashes between Yemen's Houthi rebels and government forces are straining peace efforts, and the rivals are now also battling over revenue from ports, trade, banking and natural resources, the country’s U.N. envoy said Monday. Special Representative Hans Grundberg told the U.N. Security Council that the fight over economic wealth “has become inseparable from the political and military conflict.” While fighting has decreased markedly in Yemen since a truce in April 2022, he said, “continued sparks of violence alongside public threats to return t...