POPs IN AFRICA HAZARDOUS WASTE TRADE 1980 - 2000 ... - Arte

The “toxic asphalt” had not yet been used, but was allegedly
stored in three prohibited areas of the military; near Gardo
(Province of Migiurtinia), Dus a Mareb (Mudugh) and Iscia
Baidos (Upper Juba). 192
Scheme: Unknown
Date: 1992
The New Scientist mentioned that in 1992 “a plan to ship wastes
to Somalia made it apparent that the OAU ban was being
ignored.” Greenpeace has no further details on this. 193
Scheme: Unknown from Europe
Date: 1996
Type of Waste: “leaking toxic waste”, 30 tonnes
Origin: Unknown
Exporter: Unknown
Pretext/Fate: Unknown
Status: Unknown
“...A cargo-load of leaking toxic waste docked at Kenya’s port of
Mombasa last year after being turned away by Tanzania. The
cargo, weighing more than 30,480 kgs, was also banned from
passing through the Suez Canal in the Red Sea by Egypt.
The European-registered ship, with 16 containers of chemical
waste, was finally escorted by the Kenyan marine authorities into
international waters for the start of its long journey to a disposal
site in Britain via the Mozambican port of Beira.
But six hours before the vessel’s departure, a group of Somali
leaders here, acting on what they said was a tip-off that the cargo
was to be dumped off the Somali coast, warned the ship owners
to avoid Somali territorial waters ...” 194
Obsolete Pesticides: No information available. Somalia is on the FAO list of African
countries which “still require countrywide survey” 195
SOUTH AFRICA
BASEL LOMÉ IV / COTONOU BAMAKO
05.05.93 Ratified Party
192Andreas Bernstorff, Greenpeace West Germany.
193 New Scientist, London *?, 21 November 1992, Debora MacKenzie: Would-be waste smugglers face execution.
194 Inter Press Service, 12-Aug-97, Title: EAST AFRICA: Protecting Endangered Marine Plants and Animals, by Moyiga Nduru, origin: Harare
195 FAO 1999
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