Articles by Robbie Corey-Boulet

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Ivorians Deal with European Stink
Robbie Corey-Boulet – TerraViva Europe, 1 Oct 2012

Nouma Camara, a 40-year-old tailor, remembers waking up on Aug. 20, 2006 to a smell he described as “something catastrophic.” His home in Akouedo village, in Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital city of Abidjan, lies adjacent to a large, open-air dumpsite where toxic waste had been dumped the night before. On Tuesday Sep. 25 [2012], Amnesty International and Greenpeace International released the results of a three-year joint investigation that attempts to tell the whole story of the scandal.

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