The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) has expressed concern over the potential environmental disaster posed to the Red Sea by the FSO Safer, an aging oil tanker moored off the western coast of Yemen.
The oil vessel was abandoned off the Yemeni coast after the outbreak of Yemen's civil war in early 2015 and has since been there without maintenance.
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