Tyre company Firestone is at the centre of a pollution scandal in Liberia.
The firm has been accused of contaminating the water in the town where it runs a rubber plantation.
It has been blamed for causing ailments ranging from skin diseases to birth defects.
Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege report from the town of Kpanyarh in Liberia.

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An investigation by the government in Liberia has concluded that the Firestone Rubber Plantation Company has polluted local water sources.
The three-month investigation found that a plant south-east of the capital Monrovia was responsible for high levels of orthophosphate in creeks.
The report called on Firestone to improve its waste treatment facility.
Firestone said it believed it fully [...]

By Mae Azango
One of Liberia’s oldest companies was over the weekend found liable of polluting waters in Kparnyan Town, Margibi County.
The company in question is the Firestone Rubber Plantation Company (FRPC), which was established in 1926, during the regime of Liberia’s 18th President, William V. S. Tubman.
Since the establishment of Firestone in 1926, workers have [...]

Firestone Liberia, one of the world’s largest rubber Plantations has been accused of polluting the water sources of Kpanyan Town. The accusation was contained in the report of an inter agency team that was commissioned by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to investigate thealleged contamination of Ninpu Creek in the Kpanyah Town Community. Making the report [...]

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By J. Nathaniel Daygbor
The Firestone Rubber Plantation Company in Harbel, Margibi County is making claims of gains it is making in its activities since the sitting of the Ellen-led government, such as housing and education, but a local environmental group thinks otherwise.
Save My Future Foundation (SAMFU) says the company is abusing its [...]