UN warns over oil tanker stranded off Yemen coast for years

Both the Yemeni government and Houthi fighters lay claim to its valuable cargo and neither side is budging.

The United Nations is warning that time is running out for a derelict oil tanker which has been stranded off the west coast of Yemen for five years

Both the Yemeni government and Houthi fighters lay claim to its valuable cargo – and neither side is willing to budge.

But Houthi authorities have promised to allow a UN team of engineers to access the tanker to prevent a giant oil spill.

Al Jazeera’s Laura Burdon-Manley reports.