Posted on 02/26/2016 10:13:42 AM PST by Pan_Yan
February 25, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's Justice Minister, on Thursday, formed a fact-finding committee on the alleged burial of radioactive waste in northern Sudan desert during the construction of Merowe Dam.
The decision comes after claims by the former director of the Sudan Atomic Energy Commission (SAEC), Mohamed Sidig, who said that 60 containers with toxic waste were brought from China with construction materials and machinery for the building of the Merowe dam.
Sidiq claimed that 40 containers were buried in the desert near the dam construction site while another 20 containers have been left out in the open.
The decision to form the commission of inquiry was issued at the request of the Ministry of Water Resources, Irrigation, and Electricity which asked to appoint a neutral body under the Commissions of Inquiry Act of 1954.
The investigation committee is headed by the Chief Public Prosecutor in Khartoum state, and includes representatives of the National Police, National Intelligence and Security Services, SAEC, Supreme Council for the Environment, Nuclear Medicine Institute, and the Center for Industrial Research and Consultancy.
The ministerial decision set out the inquiry's terms of reference saying the ad hoc committee will investigate the presence of chemical or radioactive materials in the area of Merowe dam, and its impact on the environment.
The investigation body has to submit its final report within two weeks after the starting of its activities.
That's got to be an important and very busy job.
I’ve been reading about China’s movement to exploit Africa for several years now.
I believe they just opened their first “official” military post on the continent.
And chances are if you work there your name is some variation of Mohamed.
If they were smart, they’d have buried it in the dam, provided it is an earthen dam. Someone’s family will get a bill for the bullets.
They have been using their Walmart dollars to buy up natural resources around the globe.
For the most part that was an entertaining though rather silly movie. It was clean, and few action comedies are safe for kids these days.
First thing I thought of as well
Me too. Fun movie that grows on you.
55,000- 70,000 farmers were forcibly relocated to poor quality sandy soil plots no larger than their original holdings by this project, which inundated the richest farmland along the Nile. Nomadic people that lived symbiotically with these farmers were left with no compensation and are now separated from the people they were codependent with.
Interesting those containers must have been put there in Sudan before early 2004, when we were still hunting WMD in Iraq.
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