Recent UN report shows that over 6.76 billion people are living with excessive air pollution. The West Africa countries are under constant influence of anthropogenic pollution from Sahara Desert, fossil-fuel engines and bush-burning. A fifteen years’ dataset was obtained from the Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MISR). Computational and statistical analysis was adopted. The percentage of increase of aerosols loading was high in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2012 which was 12.3%, 10.5%, 8% and 12.2%. Cumulatively increase of aerosol loading within 15 years was 22.9%. This results shows that Bondokou is currently having excess deposition of air pollution into the atmosphere.
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