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Nigeria gold rush sees 200 children killed in outbreak of lead poisoning
Xan Rice, Guardian East Africa correspondent
23rd September, 2010
The UN has sent an emergency team to Zamfara state, in Nigeria, as processing of ore by hand affects 18,000 people more...
Shell should clean up 'oil exploited' Niger Delta, says report
Ecologist
16th February, 2010
Oil giant should stop gas flaring, provide clean drinking water and clean up the legacy of oil spills, polluted land and waterways in Niger Delta more...
Copenhagen success rests on cash and commitment
Ecologist
10th July, 2009
New research has revealed that a lack of finance and political commitment lie at the heart of the slow take-up of renewables, as a UK think tank calls for cash for low-carbon technology to be ringfenced more...
'Pollution-as-usual' for Shell, new report reveals
Ecologist
29th June, 2009
A new report reveals Shell's expanding investment in the most polluting fuels, attempts to scupper plans to act on climate change and the complicity of top executives in continued gas flaring in Nigeria more...
Market Famines
Yves Engler
13th February, 2009
The millions of people in Niger who died during the recent famines, did so because the IMF pressured its government to tax food and the poor simply couldn't afford to save themselves more...
Poison Fire Interview
Phil Moore
11th September, 2008
Filmmaker Lars Johansson talks to the Ecologist about the making of the film 'Poison Fire' and the curse of oil in the Niger Delta. more...
Poison Fire
Phil Moore
4th September, 2008
Environmentalists arrested at community meeting on gas flaring more...
Globalisation: the dream vs the reality
Dele Oguntimoju
1st November, 2002
Globalisation sells Africans the Western dream. Immigration policies tell them they can’t have it. Where, Dele Oguntimoju asks, is the sense in that? more...
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