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.
The FSO Safer has been at risk of breaking up or exploding for years. A major spill from the vessel would result in an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe.
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by Joji Xavier
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