Topic: Cote d'Ivoire

Africa looks to vast forests for carbon credit

Reuters Environmental Online Report - 573 days ago
BANCO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - They inhabit a polluted part of Ivory Coast's main city with few jobs and a swelling population, but residents of Abidjan's slums have a rare respite: a stretch of pristine rainforest.From their wooden shacks and unpainted concrete ...
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Ivory Coast victims give Trafigura settlement mixed welcome

AFP Global Edition - 871 days ago
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 ...
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I.Coast toxic dump 'still claiming lives'

AFP Global Edition - 873 days ago
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, ...
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I.Coast toxic dump still claiming lives, say locals

AFP Global Edition - 873 days ago
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, ...
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'Strong' evidence linking toxic ship to ICoast deaths: UN expert

AFP Global Edition - 875 days ago
A UN expert has found " "This report finds that there is strong prima facie evidence that human rights violations occurred as a result of this incident," Okechukwu Ibeanu, who is the UN special rapporteur on the issue, told reporters in Geneva. ...
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Ivory Coast toxic waste case nears settlement

AP News - 875 days ago
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 ...
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Oil firm to compensate Ivory Coast poison victims

AFP Global Edition - 876 days ago
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 ...
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