April 8, 2012
Photo Credit: Other Worlds Fighting for Indigenous Rights Over Corporate Greed in the Niger Delta Emem Okon is one of the women activists whose work has been central to repairing the divisions that corporate and governmental repression have wrought in the Niger Delta. April 4, 2012 | Accelerating commodification of water, oil, land, and [...]
Tags: Chevron, ExxonMobil, Government, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Ogoni people, Petroleum industry, Shell
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January 23, 2012
Women in Bambeye, Niger, queue to have their children screened for malnutrition. Photograph: Mark Tran for the Guardian In the mid-morning sun, Aminatou Gado takes her place in the queue, where she faces a long wait to have her 14-month-old daughter screened for malnutrition. Having already walked three hours to get to the dusty town [...]
Tags: Africa, Andrew Mitchell, Burkina Faso, Chad, Kristalina Georgieva, Mali, Niger, Sahel
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January 15, 2012
Mass strikes are costing the country about $600m a day, the government says [Reuters] Nigeria’s government and labour unions have failed to come to an agreement over high gasoline costs, two weeks after $8bn of annual subsidies were slashed causing national protests. “We have not reached a compromise”, Abdulwaheed Omar, Nigeria’s Labour Congress president, told journalists outside the presidential [...]
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January 8, 2012
Lagos Dissents Under IMF Hegemony Nigeria: The Next Front for AFRICOM By Nile Bowie January 08, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — On a recent trip to West Africa, the newly appointed managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde ordered the governments of Nigeria, Guinea, Cameroon, Ghana and Chad to relinquish vital [...]
Tags: Africa, Christine Lagarde, International Monetary Fund, Lagos, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria, Subsidy, West Africa, World Bank
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January 8, 2012
Nigerian petrol attendants serve customers ahead of a nationwide strike over cuts in state fuel subsidy. Photograph: Sunday Alamba/AP Nigeria faces mass strike and protests over discontinued state fuel subsidy Thousands expected to march through streets of Lagos and Abuja after petrol pump prices more than double overnight The timing could hardly have been worse. [...]
Tags: Abuja, Africa, Boko Haram, Fela Kuti, Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria, Subsidy, United States
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August 13, 2011
Nigerian Oil Pollution May Need World’s Biggest Clean-up and Take 30 Years Gaagaa Gidom, a 60 year-old fisherman and father of eight, looks at the spilled crude oil (AFP/File, Pius Utomi Ekpei) LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. Activists [...]
Tags: Amnesty International, Environmental issues in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, Ogoni people, Oil spill, Politics of Nigeria, Shell Nigeria, United Nations Environment Programme
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August 11, 2011
You can watch the video at:http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2011/08/201189141348631784.html Every year tens of thousands of West Africans migrate to Europe in search of a better life. But for some of them that search will end in tragedy, as they fall victim to competing mafia gangs that prey on the hopes of the desperate. In southern Italy, it [...]
Tags: Castel Volturno, Crime, Giuseppe Setola, Human trafficking, Italy, Nigeria, West Africa, Women
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August 4, 2011
An oil spill near Oloibiri Town, Bayelsa, Nigeria. Photograph: Ed Kashi/Corbis Cleaning up a succession of oil spills in a region of the Niger delta that have occurred over five decades will cost $1bn and take up to 30 years, according to a major UN report into oil contamination in the region. The United Nations [...]
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August 3, 2011
An oil wellhead in Ogoniland, Niger delta. Photograph: Amnesty International UK The air stinks, the water stinks, and even the fish and crabs caught in Bodo creek smell of pure “sweet bonny” light crude oil. It has found its way deep into the village wells, it lies thick in the mud flats and there are [...]
Tags: Martyn Day, Niger, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Ogoni people, Oil spill, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Nigeria
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May 27, 2011
These are pretty high stakes when you look at the continued existence of the capital project and the continued concentration of wealth is so few hands. It really seems to be the case that despite what may be being said there really is enough room on the planet for the population today. What we are running out of space for is [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Benghazi, David Cameron, G8, Libya, middle east, NATO, Nicolas Sarkozy, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Wintour, President of France, United States
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May 19, 2011
Trigger happy murderers in NATO are basically the new cancer on the block in the Middle East. These European invading barbarians know nothing but killing as far as the troops are concerned. Fresh from glory of several thousand years in the killing fields of Europe by air land and sea these new SS Regiments havea true obedience [...]
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May 19, 2011
Barack Obama to back Middle East democracy with billions in aid President pledges cash to support Egypt and Tunisia after criticism US has been too slow to support uprisings Share60 Ewen MacAskill in Washington The Guardian, Thursday 19 May 2011 Article history Barack Obama will use his speech as an attempt to reposition the [...]
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May 9, 2011
After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]
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May 8, 2011
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
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April 23, 2011
Women have emerged as key players in the Arab spring Through protesting, organising, blogging and hunger-striking, women have taken a central role, but it remains to be seen whether their rights will improve Share252 Xan Rice in Benghazi, Katherine Marsh in Damascus, Tom Finn in Sana’a, Harriet Sherwood in Tripoli, Angelique Chrisafis and [...]
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April 19, 2011
Nigerian election victory for Goodluck Jonathan sparks riots Supporters of rival Muhammadu Buhari accuse ruling party of election rigging after Jonathan wins in first round Share47 Joe Brock in Kano guardian.co.uk, Monday 18 April 2011 19.09 BST Article history The Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, who has won elections in the country according [...]
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Scrambled Media eats Obama crumble
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
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