make officials complacent about remediating the dumpsite to forestall  
generational disease. The chemicals are potent and were in concentrated form. I  
would worry about leacheate into the groundwater and aquifers. And Ivory 
Coast  is in no political shape to save themselves as at now. I hope the 
elections will  yield the necessary reflection and calm to save the nation from 
insiduous  decay.
 
     
 
Ivory Coast waste 'victims' receive Trafigura payout 

  
The case concerns chemical waste dumped in  2006

People from Ivory Coast who said they had been made ill  by dumped waste 
have begun to receive compensation cheques, after a  four-year legal battle.  
Hundreds of Ivorians - many of them without bank accounts - queued for  
hours to receive their cheques.  
Some 30,000 people are in line for a share of a $45m (£30m) payout from  
the multi-national oil company Trafigura.  
The firm has always denied that the waste was dangerous, or that it  knew 
the chemicals would be dumped.  
Read the rest of the story here: 
_http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8548216.stm_ (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8548216.stm)  
Haruna.

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