It was a practice that ensured that the FSO Safer, abandoned just a few kilometers off Yemen’s coast, did not touch off a disaster by exploding or sinking and spilling oil. Expressing concerns about the condition of the vessel, Saudi Arabia has called for a meeting for Arab environment ministers on Monday. 582, which was adopted by the Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for Environmental Affairs in Oct. 2019. “The threat to the environment in the Red Sea is enormous, and will impact on all the countries who share this coastline,” he said. For a country reeling from a combination of conflict, humanitarian crisis, plunging currency and crumbling economy, repairs to an abandoned oil tanker off its coast might not carry the ring of urgency normally associated with a major disaster.

Source: Ethiopian News September 20, 2020 21:00 UTC