Topic: Abidjan
Organisations representing tens of thousands of victims of toxic waste dumped in Ivory Coast on Monday gave a mixed welcome to a 33 million euro payment announced in London by oil trading firm Trafigura.Claude Gohourou, president of the Ivorian national coordination of ...
Three years after a ship dumped toxic waste in Ivory Coast, residents of a village off the main city of Abidjan are still traumatised by untimely deaths they say are linked to poisoning. "We are living on borrowed time," said Bienvenue Danho, ...
Three years after a ship dumped toxic waste in Ivory Coast, residents of a village off the main city of Abidjan are still traumatised by untimely deaths they say are linked to poisoning. "We are living on borrowed time," said Bienvenue Danho, ...
Trading company Trafigura close to settling case over toxic waste in Ivory CoastCommodities trading company Trafigura said Wednesday it is close to reaching a settlement with people who claim they fell ill after a tanker dumped hundreds of tons of waste around ...
An oil trading company is to pay compensation to thousands of victims in Ivory Coast who were poisoned by toxic waste dumped in the country in 2006, representatives of the two sides said Wednesday.Victims took legal action in Britain against Trafigura after ...
An Ivory Coast court on Wednesday handed down jail terms of 20 years and five years to two people for dumping toxic waste in Abidjan in 2006, which killed 17 people and poisoned thousands.Seven other people who had been charged in the ...
Seven people are now reported dead, and 30,000 injured, by toxic waste dumped in August at 11 open dumps around Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Experts from the UN Environment Programme have flown to Abidjan to investigate. "Foreign experts" were reported as saying in ...
