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

Taurus’s manager, Ulrich Frommherz, was convicted of fraud in
1991, and sentenced for tax evasion (DM 1.1m, then USD
800,000) by the District Court of Freiburg in 1992. He was
sentenced to five years’ prison, was released and started new
businesses including toxic waste related ones in Switzerland
together with people from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 72
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 ...” 73
Obsolete Pesticides: See also the above scheme: “Taurus pesticides”
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Egypt was on the FAO 1999 list of African countries countries
which “still require countrywide survey”.
According to a 2001 document there are 591 tonnes in Egypt. 74
BASEL LOMÉ IV / COTONOU BAMAKO
Party Signatory
National Policy: The country of Equatorial Guinea, as a party to the Lomé
Convention, totally bans waste shipments to its territory.
Waste import schemes: Scheme: Emvatrex
Date: 1988
Type of Waste: Mixed Chemical Waste
72 Relevant documents are on file with Greenpeace
73 Inter Press Service, 12-Aug-97, Title: EAST AFRICA: Protecting Endangered Marine Plants and Animals, by Moyiga Nduru, origin: Harare
74 FAO 2001
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