$45 million in compensation is at stake, intended for about 30,000 victims of an oil-based sludge dumped off the coast of Abidjan, the Ivory Coast’s capital, in 2006 as thousands of victims of one of the worst toxic dumping scandals in years could lose their hard-won settlement because of disagreement on payment disbursement amongst victim [...]
There has been a mass burial of victims of last week’s Islamist uprising in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, which killed hundreds of people, a government spokesman said Sunday. “Our evacuation team has finished removing all dead bodies from the streets of the city. Families are nor forthcoming in claiming the dead bodies. Therefore, [...]
