DJIBOUTI SPILL
February 1st, 2002
BY MARK ROWEA HUGE cleanup operation has been launched in Djibouti after a spillage at the port's dockside of 10 containers full of toxic pesticides en route from the United Kingdom to Ethiopia. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is overseeing a Pounds 70,000 emergency fund to tackle the contamination which occurred almost four weeks ago but details of which have only just emerged.More than 200 tonnes of the chemical were shipped in plastic containers from the United Kingdom to be delivered to the Ethiopian Power Corporation. They were ...
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