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How to Avert an Imminent Disaster off Yemen’s Red Sea Coast
A floating oil storage facility in Yemeni waters is on the verge of breaking or blowing up
Time is running out to raise the remaining $20 million needed for a salvage operation to prevent ecological and economic damage of historic proportions.
- ICG
Crisis Group calls on governments, international institutions and affluent private individuals to reach into their pockets as a matter of extreme urgency to help stave off a disaster of dramatic magnitude in the Red Sea.
The Safer (pronounced “saffer”), a large tanker-turned-floating storage and offloading vessel carrying over a million barrels of oil, could explode or break apart at any moment.
Should it do so, it…