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ICOAST-JUSTICE-ENVIRONMENT-POLLUTION
Colonel Tibe Bi Balou (L), former director of shipping and harbour services (2R), and Salomon Ugborugbo (C), director of the Ivorian waste handling firm Tommy, which unloaded toxic slops from the ship Probo Koala in August 2006 and dumped them around Abidjan, talk to their lawyers during their trial in a courthouse in Abidjan, on September 29, 2008. The trial of 12 people charged with involvement in the 2006 toxic waste pollution scandal in the Ivory Coast opened in Abidjan. In mid-August 2006 the Probo Koala ship unloaded in Abidjan more than 500 tonnes of a highly toxic mixture of oil residue and caustic soda used to rinse out the ship's tanks. The toxic sludge, brought into Ivory Coast by Dutch-based multinational trading company Trafigura, killed 16 people and caused an estimated 95,000 people to seek medical attention. AFP PHOTO KAMBOU SIA
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Abidjan, IVORY COAST |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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KAMBOU SIA |
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29 Septembrie 2008 |
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2160 x 1571 (1.32 MB) |
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