2016 was the year the Togolese government applied to signed Minamata Convention on mercury. In need of an expert able to assist the Ministry's delegate, a lawyer by training and thus unfamiliar with persistent organic pollutants issues, Mr. Badjare was an obvious choice for that year's Mercury Inventory Workshop in Barcelona. Mercury pollution is indeed a very concerning health issue in Togo, directly linked to problematic practices in waste disposal and, most of all, to traditional small-scale gold mining. It is believed that Togo could be having large gold resources, many of whom are still to be discovered.
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