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Article: UN probe team finds no toxic waste along coastal Somalia
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- October 7, 2005
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UN probe team finds no toxic waste along coastal Somalia
NAIROBI, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- A United Nations technical fact-
finding mission to Somalia has found no traces of toxic waste along
the shorelines of the shattered Horn of Africa nation, officials said
here Friday.
Early this year, the UN appointed a team to investigate possible
hazardous waste that was washed ashore by last year's tsunami and may
have caused illnesses among Somalis.
The team was appointed following outcry among the international
community including Somali government officials that toxic waste
washed onto Somali's coastline by last December's tsunami have
spawned diseases bearing symptoms of radioactive exposure in ...