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Yemen's Houthis agree U.N. proposal to offload decaying oil tanker

FILE PHOTO: Mohamed Ali al-Houthi, head of the Houthi supreme revolutionary committee, talks during an interview with Reuters in Sanaa, Yemen August 1, 2018. Picture taken August 1, 2018. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Yemen's Houthi movement has signed an agreement with the United Nations to deal with a decaying oil tanker threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil off the war-torn country's coast, a Houthi official said.

U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths said last month that there was an agreement in principle to shift the oil from the tanker Safer to another ship. He gave no timeline.

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