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Friday, November 24, 2017

Fighting the Environmental Damages of Mercury in Togo

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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