UN funding drive to prevent Yemen oil spill set for May 4

United Nations, United States (AFP) April 20, 2023

A virtual donor conference will be held on May 4 to try and fill a $29 million gap in funding needed to safely remove oil from an abandoned tanker off Yemen’s coast, the UN said Thursday.

Seeking to avoid a damaging oil spill in the Red Sea, the UN Development Program (UNDP) in March took the unprecedented step of purchasing its own supertanker to remove more than a million barrels of oil fr
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