POPs IN AFRICA HAZARDOUS WASTE TRADE 1980 - 2000 ... - Arte
POPs IN AFRICA HAZARDOUS WASTE TRADE 1980 - 2000 ... - Arte
POPs IN AFRICA HAZARDOUS WASTE TRADE 1980 - 2000 ... - Arte
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SENEGAL<br />
BASEL LOMÉ IV / COTONOU BAMAKO<br />
10.11.92 Ratified Party Ratified / Party to<br />
National Policy: The country of Senegal, as a party to the Lomé Convention,<br />
totally bans waste shipments to its territory. Senegal is a<br />
signatory to the Bamako Convention which bans the import of<br />
hazardous waste.<br />
On June 10, 1988, Senegal’s Director of Environment, Bakary<br />
Kante, stated that, as long as he is in office he will not allow his<br />
country to receive foreign wastes. On August 4, 1988, Senegal’s<br />
ambassador to Ghana, Saloum Kande, called for all African<br />
countries to unite and wage a relentless war against the dumping<br />
of foreign wastes in Africa. Senegal’s former president, Dr.<br />
Leopold Senghor, said on June 28, 1988, that Africa should act<br />
firmly against the influx of wastes into the continent. 178<br />
Waste import schemes: Scheme: Khian Sea<br />
Date: 1988<br />
Type of Waste: Incinerator Ash<br />
Source: U.S.<br />
Exporter: Henry Dowd<br />
Pretext/Fate: Dumping<br />
Status: Rejected<br />
According to U.S. newspaper columnist Jack Anderson, the<br />
government of Senegal rejected an attempt by the notorious ashhauling<br />
vessel, Khian Sea, to dump its cargo in Senegal in June<br />
1988. 179<br />
For more information, see Feature Waste Trade Scheme section<br />
on the Khian Sea.<br />
Scheme: Commercial Overseas Development<br />
Date: 1987<br />
Type of Waste: Various<br />
Source: Europe<br />
Exporter: Rene Lehman (Swiss) and Hubert Lefebvre (French)<br />
Pretext/Fate: Dumping<br />
Status: Proposed, Stopped, Unknown<br />
Swiss businessman Rene Lehmann and his French partner,<br />
Hubert Lefebvre, planned to export European wastes of all kinds<br />
to a dumpsite in Thies, one kilometer north of the Senegalese<br />
capital of Dakar. After preparations in 1987, the project was<br />
178Personal conversation with Bakary Kante in Caracas, Venezuela, June 10, 1988; “Rawlings Calls for Resisting Toxic Waste Dumping in Africa,” Xinhua English Language<br />
News Service, August 4, 1988; “Senegalese Former President on Africa,” Xinhua English Language News Service, June 28, 1988.<br />
179Jack Anderson, “The Khian Sea’s Curious Voyage,” Washington Post, August 18, 1988.<br />
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