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Cote d'Ivoire: Toxic Waste Claimants Offered Payouts
allAfrica, 21 September 2009
A Dutch-based oil trading company has offered to pay more than 30 million Euros (U.S. $48 million) to up to 31,000 Ivorians who said toxic waste dumped in Abidjan made them ill in… Read more »
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Cote d'Ivoire: Toxic Waste Caused 2006 Deaths, Says UN Official
UN News, 16 September 2009
Evidence indicates that the dumping of toxic wastes having caused over one dozen deaths and dozens of illnesses in Côte d'Ivoire in 2006, an independent United Nations human… Read more »
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Cote d'Ivoire: Who is to Blame for Dumping Toxic Oil Sludge?
UNIRIN, 1 October 2008
A trial is under way in Abidjan of local officials accused of conniving in the dumping of toxic oil sludge in August 2006 and causing over a dozen deaths, and illnesses to tens of… Read more »
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Cote d'Ivoire: Toxic Dumping Health-Scare Over
UNIRIN, 28 September 2006
Rows of empty plastic chairs at the toxic waste emergency centre at Cocody hospital are a reminder of the hysteria that swept through Cote d'Ivoire's main city earlier this month,… Read more »
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Cote d'Ivoire: Cabinet Resigns Over Toxic Fumes Scandal
UNIRIN, 7 September 2006
President Laurent Gbagbo has accepted the unprecedented resignation of Cote d'Ivoire's cabinet as anger mounts over the dumping of toxic waste in the main city, Abidjan, that made… Read more »
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Cote d'Ivoire: Hundreds Hospitalised After Breathing Toxic Fumes
UNIRIN, 6 September 2006
Hundreds of people have been admitted to hospital after breathing toxic fumes from poisonous waste dumped in residential areas of Cote d'Ivoire's main city, Abidjan. Read more »
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Cote d'Ivoire: Company Settles Over Toxic Waste Scandal
UNIRIN, 14 February 2007
The Dutch-based multinational Trafigura has agreed to pay the equivalent of US $198 million to the Cote d'Ivoire government in a settlement over a toxic waste scandal. Read more »