Houthis agree to allow UN to offload decaying oil tanker in Red Sea
The rust has eaten out parts of the tanker, allowing seawater to leak into the ship’s sections Armed men kidnap workers of Medecins Sans Frontieres in Yemen’s Hadramout province Local and international organizations have long warned of a major environmental disaster in the Red Sea if the Safer oil tanker exploded or leaked oil. AL-MUKALLA: The Iran-backed Houthis have agreed to allow the UN to empty the rusting Safer oil tanker in the Red Sea which threatened to cause a major catastrophic disaster, a leader from the terrorist group said. After years of reluctance and unfulfilled promises, Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi , head of the Houthi movement’s supreme revolutionary committee, said on Saturday that they signed an agreement with the UN that would allow the international body to offload the floating tanker. “A memorandum of understanding has been signed with the United Nations for the Safer tanker,” the Houthi leader said on Twitter. In New York, Farhan Haq, a deputy spokesman for Se...