Because to get rid of a shipload full of extremely toxic industry garbage in Holland would have been to expensive a dutch company sent the ship to Ivory Coast, where the garbage was dumped in a lagoon and around the city of Abidjan , most likely with the help of corrupt ivorian politicians. Only the most recent example of European companies trying to use african countries as a giant waste dump. A number of people in Abidjan has died and many suffer from severe health problems...


http://www.spiegel.de/international/...437842,00.html

There are very interesting works by democratic economist larry summers about the position of sub saharan africa in the democratic world economy: the main conclusion is they are only worth welcoming wastes from democratic people.
So it is all fine. It works as expected.