Toxic dump
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Green campaigners attacked a Swiss company, Achair and Partners, for contracting to send 10m tons of dangerous industrial, hospital and toxic waste to Somalia in December 1991. Roelants du Vivier, the campaigners' leader, produced a copy of the contract between Achair and the Somali health minister, at the time, Nur Elmy Osman.
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