UN vessel sets sail to prevent oil spill from decaying tanker off Yemen's coast

STORY: UN vessel sets sail to prevent oil spill from decaying tanker off Yemen's coast DATELINE: July 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:02 LOCATION: HODEIDAH, Yemen CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of coast guard officers standing on a boat sailing toward the decaying supertanker Safer 2. various of the Safer 3. SOUNDBITE (English): MOHAMMED MUDAWI, UNDP Project manager 4. various of the Safer 5. various of damages on the Safer 6. various of the technical team's ship 7. various of a technician standing on the Safer 8. various of the Safer STORYLINE: A vessel chartered by the United Nations set sail from Djibouti on Saturday toward Yemen to transfer oil from a deteriorating tanker that poses a major environmental and humanitarian threat. The replacement vessel, Nautica, is expected to arrive at the site of the FSO Safer supertanker on Sunday. Once it arrives, a meticulous ship-to-ship transfer operation will be initiated to extract the oil from the Safer, according to a statement from the UN Development Pro

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(220620) -- UNITED NATIONS, June 20, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Ghada Eltahir Mudawi, director of Operations and Advocacy Division of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, speaks at a Security Council meeting on South Sudan, at the UN headquarters in New York, on June 20, 2022. The humanitarian situation in South Sudan has deteriorated in the past months as a result of conflict and climate shocks, the UN official said Monday. (Manuel Elias/UN Photo/Handout via Xinhua)