African elites 'desecrate their fatherland'

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A senior official at the KwaZulu-Natal department of the environment has launched a stinging attack on the World Bank and other global institutions for "perpetuating the environmental enslavement" of Africa.

Dr Timothy Fasheun, head of the province's pollution and waste management division, also lashed out at members of Africa's privileged elites who collaborated with powerful northern bodies to "desecrate their fatherland and sacrifice their own people for the sake of money".

Fasheun, a Nigerian-born environmental physicist and agricultural meteorologist, was educated at universities in the United Kingdom and Nigeria. He launched his attack this week during the opening plenary session of the World Congress on Environmental Health, an event that has attracted more than 600 foreign and local delegates to Durban's International Convention Centre.

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