Preliminary list of countries with known obsolete pesticide stocks   Countries in Africa Pesticide stocks total (tonnes) Disposed of - Algeria 207 Benin 421 Botswana 18 247 Burkina Faso 75 Burundi 169 Cameroon 225 Cape Verde 43 Central African Republic 238 Dem. Rep. of Congo 591 Rep. of Congo 2 Cote d'Ivoire 828 821 Egypt 591 Equatorial Guinea 146 Eritrea 223 Ethiopia 3 401 Gambia 21 21 Ghana 72 Guinea-Bissau 9 9 Guinea-Conakry 47 Kenya 56 Libya 44 Madagascar 64 64 Malawi 111 Mali 13 761 Mauritania 297 200 Morocco 2 265 Mozambique 443 Namibia 245 202 Niger 151 Nigeria 22 Rwanda 451 Sao Tome and Principe 3 Senegal 289 110 Seychelles 12 12 Sierra Leone 7 South Africa 603 603 Sudan 666 Swaziland 9 9 Tanzania 1 136 57 Togo 86 Tunisia 882 Uganda 254 90 Zambia 360 360 Zanzibar 280 280 Zimbabwe 27 - Total 48 081 2 838 - - Countries in the Middle East Pesticide stocks total (tonnes) Disposed of - Iran 1 139 Iraq 232 Kuwait 32 Lebanon 189 10 Qatar 5 5 Saudi Arabia 241 Syria 327 Yemen 1 802 262 - Total 3 967 277   Back to article: The ticking time bomb: toxic pesticide waste dumps

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