The United Nations has launched a public crowdfunding drive that aims to raise $5 million towards an operation to avoid an oil spill from a decaying tanker stranded off the coast of Yemen, a UN official said on Monday.
The United Nations has secured some $60 million out of $80 million needed to initially offload the Safer tanker which holds 1.1 million barrels - four times as much oil as spilled during the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker disaster in the United States.
