Ivory Coast waste 'not toxic'
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A Netherlands-based company says the waste it disposed of in Ivory Coast, blamed for seven deaths, was not toxic.
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ROME, Jun 29 (IPS) - Water is not the stuff of business, it is a basic  human right. Hama Arba Diallo, outgoing executive secretary of  the Convention of the United Nations to Combat Desertification  (UNCCD), is convinced that the United Nations is about to  formally recognise this principle, possibly by 2008.
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ABIDJAN  - Top Ivory Coast and French officials appealed for calm, pledging to cooperate to put down a wave of unrest that left at least 13 dead and hundreds injured in the divided west African state.
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Ivory Coast's main city begins returning to normal after anti-French riots following a call for people to return to work.
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By Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  May 24--For the first time in six years, the state is reporting that the amount of toxic waste in Ohio is on the rise.   In Franklin County, the amount more than doubled from 2004 to 2005.
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THE 10th summit of French-speaking countries which opens tomorrow is supposed to focus on sustainable development but the resurgent crisis in Ivory Coast, once Francophone west Africa's brightest light, is ...
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Because of tight regulations enacted by the European Union in 1994, proper waste disposal  has become prohibitively expensive. Enter the black-market trash brokers, who have taken to "port hopping" - moving toxic rubbish along the line of least resistance to underregulated areas in Africa or Asia.
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By Fraser Sherman, Destin Log, Fla.  Feb. 10--Garbage pick-up, Destin's Mark LeBrasseur says, is a service he pays for, not a favor from Waste Management Inc.
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Two senior French officials of the company whose toxic waste was dumped in Ivory Coast are charged.
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A scandal around the dumping of oil   waste blamed for eight deaths in Ivory Coast has given rare   insight into the world's murky trade in waste, much of it   toxic, in defiance of global trade laws.
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Up to 14 open-air sites in Ivory Coast's port city of Abidjan have been contaminated by toxic waste, and four trucks that transported the waste are missing, U.N. officials said Friday.
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Oil trading group Trafigura is to pay the Ivorian government $198m for a clean-up after a "toxic waste" incident.
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DAKAR, Senegal The news reports streaming out of Abidjan, Ivory Coast&#39;s once-shining metropolis, seem like a throwback to a bygone era: white men and women cowering in their homes, black men and women rampaging through the streets, European soldiers
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A spokeswoman for the foreign ministry, Daniela Stoffel, said the 267 Swiss currently in Ivory Coast had not been affected by the violence directed at French citizens and French holdings.
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Ivory Coast is set to get a new cabinet after the previous one resigned over a toxic waste scandal in Abidjan.
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ABENGOUROU, Ivory Coast  - Angry at graft and disorder in Ivory Coast's cocoa sector, farmer Anini Kouakou spoke out on national television earlier this year against corrupt officials he says are siphoning off farmers' cash.
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PRESIDENT Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast has assured the UN he will put no obstacles in the way of the peace process in the divided west African country.