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UN announces 'major breakthrough' to prevent Yemen oil spill disaster

A view of the Yemeni flagged oil tanker Rudeef GNA, sinking in the waters off Yemen's second city and port of Aden. (Credit: AFP)

The United Nations said Thursday it had bought a ship to remove oil and avoid a potentially catastrophic spill from a tanker decaying for years off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen.

"This would obviously be a major breakthrough," United Nations Development Program Achim Steiner told reporters at the UN headquarters.


The United Nations said Thursday it had bought a ship to remove oil and avoid a potentially catastrophic spill from a tanker decaying for years off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen.



"This would obviously be a major breakthrough," United Nations Development Program Achim Steiner told reporters at the UN headquarters.