The Ship that Became a Bomb Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die. SL NewYorker.
So much more to this story than “just” a leaking oil tanker. The warp and weft of violence over oil, and the decades-long hangover of imperialism and the cold war, in combination with the astonishing corruption of the Yemeni state, international paralysis and the current ruthless regional power plays continue to cause untold suffering in Yemen.