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During the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel<br />

Convention, (Decision III/19) held in Geneva September 1995 it was<br />

agreed to establish a network of Regional and Sub-regional Centres for<br />

Training and Technology Transfer in all the regions. For the African<br />

region Senegal was designated to host a centre for French speaking<br />

countries, Egypt for Arabic-speaking countries in Africa, South Africa for<br />

English speaking countries and Nigeria to host a Coordinating Centre.<br />

The overall objectives for establishing these centres is to strengthen the<br />

capacity of governments of the regions in complying with the technical,<br />

legal and institutional requirements in sound management of hazardous<br />

wastes as specified by the Basel Convention.<br />

8.0 Bamako Convention<br />

Article 11 of the Basel Convention permits Parties to enter into Bilateral,<br />

<strong>Multi</strong>lateral or Regional agreements/arrangements regarding<br />

transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes with<br />

Parties or non-Parties provided that such agreements do not contravene<br />

the provisions of the Basel Convention.<br />

During the Conference of the plenipotentiaries in Basel, March 1989 which<br />

adopted Basel Convention, the African States present at that meeting<br />

were not satisfied with the provisions of the Basel Convention particularly<br />

the issue of transboundary movement of hazardous wastes to developing<br />

countries which by then disregarded the limited capacity of developing<br />

countries in sound management of hazardous wastes and other wastes.<br />

As an alternative measure the African States met in Mali, Bamako where<br />

they adopted on 30 th January 1991 a regional Treaty focusing on ban for<br />

any purpose the import of hazardous wastes into Africa. This treaty was<br />

titled “The Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and<br />

the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous<br />

Wastes within Africa”. It came into force on 22 nd April 1998 after 10<br />

instruments of ratification. To-date there are 18 States are Parties to this<br />

Convention.<br />

8.1 Objectives of Bamako Convention<br />

The key objectives of this Convention are: -<br />

⇒ To ban the importation of hazardous wastes and substances into Africa<br />

for human health and environmental reasons;<br />

⇒ To minimize the generation of hazardous wastes in terms of both<br />

quantity and hazard potential;<br />

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