Daily Digest Online

An investigative report by Bloomberg Businessweek has revealed a disturbing double standard, where pesticides and herbicides banned in the European Union for their links to cancer and neurological diseases are being exported and widely used across Nigeria, poisoning farmlands, water supplies, and the farmers who depend on them. A sweeping investigation by Bloomberg Businessweek exposes a critical public health and environmental crisis in Nigeria, fueled by the export of agrochemicals deemed too dangerous for European soil. Dozens of pesticides banned in the European Union for their suspected carcinogenic and neurotoxic properties remain widely available in Nigerian markets, creating what activists describe as a "silent poisoning" of rural communities. The report centers on farmers like 45-year-old Abdullahi Yusuf in northwest Nigeria, who attributes his 12-year-old daughter’s death from leukemia to the chemicals he uses on his crops. "She just ate...