The UN Security Council has expressed its deep concern about the increased danger posed by FSO Safer – a floating oil storage and offloading vessel moored in the Red Sea off Yemen. Image Credit: …
As if Yemen Needed More Woes, a Decrepit Oil Tanker Threatens Disaster
A rusting vessel used for years to store oil off Yemen’s coast poses what the United Nations has called a dire and entirely preventable threat of ecological catastrophe.
UN Yemen envoy calls for probe into civilian deaths
Envoy calls for investigation into Wednesday’s air strikes that killed at least 11 civilians in al-Jawf province.
Oil spill from Yemen tanker ‘would be four times worse than Exxon Valdez’ – UN
Spill from decaying vessel could wreck environment and livelihoods for decades …
Time running out to prevent huge oil spill off Yemen, UN official warns
Houthi rebels preventing access to rusting tanker containing 1.1m barrels of crude …
Air strikes kill civilians in Yemen’s al-Jawf province, residents say
Jawf killed at least seven civilians on Wednesday, residents and an official from the Houthi movement said, in the third such incident since June as violence resurges in the war-damaged country.
A deteriorating oil tanker off Yemen coast with a million barrels of crude could be an environmental ‘catastrophe’
The UN environment chief has said that “time is running out” to avert an environmental, economic and humanitarian catastrophe from a deteriorating oil tanker loaded with 1.1 million barrels of crude …
Generating Business and Job Growth in Yemen through COVID-19 Response
English News and Press Release on Yemen about Recovery and Reconstruction and Epidemic; published on 15 Jul 2020 by USAID …
UN official: Catastrophe looming from oil tanker off Yemen
The U.N. environment chief said Wednesday that “time is running out” to avert an environmental, economic and humanitarian catastrophe from a deteriorating oil tanker loaded with …
UN fears ‘catastrophe’ if Yemen oil tanker ruptures
The United Nations held an unusual session Wednesday to express fears of “catastrophe” if a decaying oil tanker abandoned off Yemen’s coast with 1.1 million barrels of crude on board ruptures into the …