Dangerous wastes effecting Somalia due the tsunami
Somalia, Politics, 3/12/2005

The Somali government called on the UN on Thursday to remove tons of dangerous waste which were transported from their original place by the waves of the "Tsunami" flood, and they said it causes diseases.

Hassan Hajji, the spokesman for the ministry of the environment in Nairobi said that "reports of health and people's complaints comes" to my ministry over the dissemination of a new disease which has not been yet diagnosed that causes the increase of deaths between humans and animals followed by extermination of land and sea life."

There are reports over huge number of medical problems like internal bleeding, breathing and skin problems. There are fears that the life of people, animals and sea life to be vulnerable.

A UN report issued in February said that the waves of the floods took out dangerous materials in Somalia which has been used since years as a burial for nuclear wastes for other countries.

The report explained that the burial of wastes became much easier after toppling former President Seyad Berri in 1991.

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