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Dutch judgment in Ivory Coast toxic dumping case (AFP)

July 20th, 2010

A man points to unusable fields near a warning for a toxic zone still unsafe after the discovery of hundreds of tonnes of dumped toxic waste near Abidjan in 2006, which Ivorian authorities have said killed 17 people and made thousands ill.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)AFP - A Dutch court will hand down judgment Friday in the first trial of a Swiss-based company whose chartered ship dumped waste alleged to have killed 17 people in Ivory Coast in 2006.


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