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The Yemeni government began coordinating with the UN to discuss the executive plans of the second operation of removing crude oil from the rusting FSO Safer tanker, anchored off the coast of Hodeidah on the Red Sea. The first phase was completed by transferring about 1.1 million barrels to an alternative tanker. The next phase will focus on mobilizing the necessary funding from donors and partners from the private sector and other parties, cleaning Safer, and disposing of the crude oil in the replacement vessel.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed an agreement to secure the purchase of a large vessel as part of the UN-coordinated operation to remove more than a million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, the agency’s administrator informed. UNIFEED<br />

Now, an addendum to the story reveals the work of a hero whose crowdfunding campaign succeeded in collecting the money to clean the tanker.

A tanker full of oil was stuck off the coast of Yemen with a risk of spill greatly damaging the Red Sea.

When civil war broke out in 2015, a leaky oil tanker in the Red Sea became a crisis point – triggering a nail-biting series of events that saw special negotiations between the Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed government, and the UN begging the public for help – and getting it from a bunch of US schoolchildren