Mali: environment minister criticises tanneries

11/11/2013
Mali’s minister for the environment, Ousmane Ag Rhissa, has criticised four tanneries in the region around the capital, Bamako, for failing to carry out primary effluent treatment of waste before transferring waste materials to a common treatment plant at Sotuba.

Local media named West Africa, Imat, Tamak and Nouvelle Tannerie du Mali as the four operators involved.