Breaking silences
Tweet Amanda Mutamba Muhunde’s poem is dedicated to raising awareness of survivors of rape in conflict zones in parts of Africa and breaking the silence. Amanda pulls no punches in raising your conscious a notch or two as she lyrically…
Shell “Sorry” to the people of the Niger Delta
Tweet This was a spoof by the Yes Men to try and get Shell to retract an apology they never made. Unfortunately it didn’t work – they tried, we tried but it fell flat as a bloody pancake on a…
Nigeria: Sending messages of love in a time of hate
Tweet 500 m0re people have been massacred in fresh outbreaks of violence in three villages near Jos last Sunday. The murderers came in the middle of the night killing mainly women and children. This is the second attack since January…
Multinationals on trial
Tweet Shell, Chevron in the Niger Delta, Texaco/ Chevron in the Ecuadoran Amazon – both examples of militarisation of commerce and corporate theft and violence against communities. In 1993 the communities of Lago Agrio in Ecuador sued Chevron / Texaco…
Has mining Haiti’s riches contributed to the earthquake?
Tweet An important and thoughtful post from Haitian blogger, Ezili Danto who raises a number of serious questions around why the earthquake happened at this time – the first in 239 years. In the Mining Haiti’s Riches interview, I recount…
Nigerian farmers take Shell to court
Tweet Today is the start of a landmark court brought by four farmers from the Niger Delta against Shell Oil. The Nigerian farmers and fishers, who lost their livelihoods after oil from leaking Shell pipelines streamed over their fields and…
Keep the oil in the soil
Tweet A meeting of civil society organisations, lawyers, media, academics in Port Harcourt to discuss the future of oil in the Niger Delta and it’s impact on climate change and sustainability have issued a strong militant statement to the Federal…
George Osodi: The Real People of the Delta
Tweet George Osodi is a photographer and activist who has been documenting life in the Niger Delta for the past 8 years. With so many western photographers, researchers, writers and film makers documenting the Niger Delta, George’s work [he is…
Grand theft Congo – who are the plunderers?
Tweet Most of us probably havent even heard of cassiterite – the mineral used in electronics especially laptops. There was a time when laptops used to be hugely expensive. Now you can pick up one for a couple of hundred…
Chad, Guinea: Lets talk about violence against women
Tweet Amnesty International have released a report on the sexual violence being carried out against refugee women in Chad. The violence is taking place in the Eastern region where Chad borders with Sudan. Out of the 250,000 refugees most are…
Trust no body – will the real Nigeria stand up.
Tweet Will the real Nigeria stand up. Ed Kashi who produced the photo journal “Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta” in 2008 recently returned to the Niger Delta for 7 weeks. Kashi’s…
Corporate committee of shitheads
Tweet Current TV – Sahara Reporters
Amnesty – real progress, or yet more purposed inertia.
Tweet Wole Soyinka makes a public statement on the Niger Delta. Particularly pertinent is his emphasis on making a distinction between genuine militants seeking justice and opportunistic mercenaries s seeking to destroy. “The attempt in some quarters to confuse issues…
Interactive map of Niger Delta
Tweet An interactive map of the Niger Delta by the Financial Times showing oil fields and conflict zones -See MAP Umaru Yar’Adua, Nigeria’s president, offered an amnesty to militants in the Niger Delta on Friday as part of his strategy…
Nigeria government launches attack against bloggers
Tweet The Nigerian government has just launched a “$5 million war” against bloggers and online news media such as Sahara Reporters. Three security sources, who are privy to the plan, revealed that Yar’adua last week approved the covert operation to…
Execution by JTF
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Ogoni 9 – Shell settlement: Victory, but justice deferred?
Tweet The following article is published in Pambazuka News and is written by Sokari Ekine and Firoze Manji “And as I was going, I was just thinking how the war have spoiled my town Dukana, uselessed many people, killed many…
Wiwa v Shell: $15.5 million settlement
Tweet The case has been settled out of court with $10 million going to the 10 plaintiffs and $5 million being gifted to the Ogoni people. Details of the settlement are here and here. Below is part of the statement…
Wiwa v Shell postponed indefinitely means what?
Tweet The trial has been delayed over and over and finally well we thought finally it was due to start on the 26th May and then 27th May. Another cancellation and now we learn that both the trial and the…
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