In Yemen, the United Nations has begun pumping over 1 million barrels of oil from a decaying supertanker anchored in the Red Sea. The ship was abandoned off the coast of Yemen in 2015, at the start of the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war against Houthi rebels. Experts warned of a potentially catastrophic oil spill due to the ship’s corrosion and lack of maintenance. This is U.N. humanitarian coordinator David Gressly.

David Gressly: “We do expect that this will take approximately 19 days to move the 1.1 million barrels off of the vessel. … The primary security threats have been fully mitigated in this case. The primary issue, of course, is that this is a country still at war, a civil war but also within the region. And that causes a great deal of distrust and a lot more scrutiny from a security point of view.”