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Mauritians march for the second time in a month as public anger festers over the government's handling of a devastating oil spill off the coast. IMAGES
Tens of thousands of Mauritians take to the streets of Port-Louis to protest the government's handling of the oil spill that ravaged the southeast coast of Mauritius in early August. IMAGES
Philippine coastguards loading floating oil containment barriers, suction skimmer, and oil dispersant onto a boat in the port of Limay as as they prepare to go out to sea to contain spill after a Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil sank off Manila on Thursday. IMAGES
Images released by the Armed Forces show a long slick of crude oil covering the sand and reaching the sea at a tourist beach in Esmeraldas province, northwestern Ecuador. According to state-owned company Petroecuador, the oil spilled onto Las Palmas beach in the city of Esmeralda, where an oil terminal and a refinery operate. IMAGES
UN Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner says the United nations has bought a ship to remove oil and avoid a potentially catastrophic spill from a tanker decaying for years off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen. SOUNDBITE
Aerial images of the Japanese-owned MV Wakashio ship that ran aground on a coral reef off the shores of Mauritius on July 25. The container is leaking tonnes of oil into a protected marine park home to mangrove forests and endangered species. IMAGES
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