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Information Network On Waste Management

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Une bonne partie du territoire nigerien se trouve en zone sahélienne, une région aride aux confints du désert du Sahara
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    Environmentalists in Dakar have created an information network to raise public and government awareness about the dangers of incinerating waste, according to PANA.

    The formation of the Reseau senegalais d'information sur les Dechets (RSID) was prompted mainly by the envisaged installation of incinerators at all the country's major hospitals, the news agency reported on Monday.

    ''In Senegal incineration is too often used as a means of waste
    disposal,'' PANA reported RSID national coordinator Babacar Ndaw as saying. ''Yet we should all be aware that incineration does not always eliminate waste, but rather transforms it into particles, smoke, toxic gas and other substances whose effects are extremely noxious to humans and animals.''

    Members of the RSID include CONGAD, an umbrella of development NGOs in Senegal, the African Human Rights Network and the African Network for International Development.

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