Thread by @Somali_ICS

1/6🧵 An informative thread on Japan's Nuclear waste activity in Somalia ☠

Somalia — a country under UN arms embargo since 1992 with no relations to nuclear weapons or nuclear power plants happens to be one of the top 5 dirtiest nuclear waste sites. #Japan #Fukushima #Somalia

2/6 Somalia — Africa's longest coastline is the most attractive nuclear waste dumping grounds for European countries and Japan's favourite experimental site for discharging nuclear-contaminated water from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. #Fukushima #Somalia #Japan

3/6 EU has turned Somalia's waters into a dumping sites for radioactive waste materials, cyanide, industrial wastes, cadmium, mercury, pharmaceutical & hospital wastes. To add to the problem — under agreements with the 🇯🇵 gov, EU shipping companies are dumping 🇯🇵 ☠ waste in 🇸🇴.

4/6 While most of the EU dumping occurs in many regions in Somalia, however, containers with Nihongo engravings are mostly found in populated areas like the Adalle & Warsheikh beaches. Beach goers who were exposed to the containers experienced unusual skin & abdominal reactions.

5/6 It seems the experiment is successful for Japan after giving contracts to EU countries to learn the effects of the nuclear contaminated water after years of dumping into Somalia's coastlines.

EU: The same countries who approved Japan's nuclear dumping into the Pacific Ocean.

6/6 Nuclear dumping waste market: it costs EU shipping companies $2.50/ton to illegally dump toxic wastes on Somalia's beaches compared to $250/ton for disposing them in Europe. It's this economical reason why the EU was desperate in approving Japan's 🗑🌊☠ plan.

Source: UNEP