Table 2: List of selected items.

Country

Name of the Landfill

Studies

Ivory Coast

Akouédo

1.      Characterization of the chemical and microbiological pollution of the environment of the Akouédo landfill, Abidjan-Côte d’Ivoire [15].

2.      Toxicological risks of cohabitation with a landfill: Case of Akouédo in Côte d’Ivoire [5].

3.      Relative mobility of mercury from the Akouédo landfill and risk of contamination of the Continental Terminal aquifer [28].

Nigeria

Aba-Eku

Assessment of groundwater pollution near Aba-Eku municipal solid waste dumpsite [38].

Nigeria

Olushosun

1.      Reproductive toxicity assessment of Olusosun municipal landfill leachate in Mus musculus using abnormal sperm morphology and dominant lethal mutation [31].

2.      Evaluations of groundwater contamination by leachates around Olusosun open dumpsite in Lagos metropolis, southwest Nigeria [17].

3.      An exploratory evaluation of the potential pulmonary, neurological and other health effects of chronic exposure to emissions from municipal solid waste fires at a large dumpsite in Olusosun, Lagos, Nigeria [39].

Ghana

Kronum

Distribution of heavy metals in soils from abandoned dump sites in Kumasi, Ghana [35].

Ghana

Amakon

Distribution of heavy metals in soils from abandoned dump sites in Kumasi, Ghana [35].

Ghana

Kpone

Assessment of heavy metal contamination in soils at the Kpone landfill site, Ghana: Implication for ecological and health risk assessment [13].

Ghana

Agbogbloshie

1.      Soil concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers and trace metals from an electronic waste dump site in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana: Implications for human exposure [16].

2.      Bioaccessibility and human health risk assessment of metal (loid) s in soil from an e-waste open burning site in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana [18].

Togo

Agoè

Assessmentof the quantity of heavy metals in the Agoè landfill (Lomé-Togo): Case of lead, cadmium, copper, nickel and zinc [40].

Niger

Niamey 2000

Physico-chemical characterization of landfill leachate: Case of the uncontrolled landfill of Niamey 2000 [25].

Sierra Leone

Granville Brook

Environmental and Health Impact of Solid Waste Disposal in Developing Cities: A Case Study of Granville Brook Dumpsite, Freetown, Sierra Leone [26].

Senegal

Mbeubeuss

1.      Low-level environmental exposure to lead and renal adverse effects: A cross-sectional study in the population of children bordering the Mbeubeuss landfill near Dakar, Senegal [29].

2.      Childhood saturnism near a landfill [41].

3.      Effects of environmental cadmium and lead exposure on adults neighboring a discharge: Evidences of adverse health effects [33].

4.      Renal impairment assessment on adults living nearby a landfill: Early kidney dysfunction biomarkers linked to the environmental exposure to heavy metals [34].

5.      [11] (Cabral 2012).

6.      Contamination of chicken eggs near the Mbeubeuss landfill site in a suburb of Dakar, Senegal, with dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and hexachlorobenzene [12].

Gambia

Bakoteh

Preliminary and detailed engineering design study of the Bakoteh dump Site [24].