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Article

7 Sep 2006

Author:
AFP, in Middle East Times

Ivory Coast government resigns over pollution [includes comments by Trafigura Beheer]

The entire government of Ivory Coast resigned late Wednesday following a toxic waste scandal in which at least three people died, including two children, and 1,500 others were poisoned... Poisonous chemicals were dumped three weeks ago on open-air garbage sites around...Abidjan... They had been unloaded from the Probo Koala, a...ship...chartered by...Trafigura [Beheer]...[which] said...that the discharge was legal and that an Ivorian company [named Tommy] had been entrusted with handling the unloaded waste. [also refers to Prime Marine]