- Gareth Evans
- BBC
The tanker has been deserted since 2015
Nations announced the purchase of a huge ship to prevent an environmental disaster on the Yemeni coast.
For years, an abandoned tanker carrying a million barrels of oil has been sitting in the Red Sea.
There are fears that the tanker will disintegrate or explode, leading to one of the largest oil spill accidents in history.
However, the United Nations said Thursday that it had bought a huge tanker heading to Yemen to load the amount of oil in the abandoned ship.