Word: delta
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...brief weeks this autumn, there were hopes that the long-running civil war in the Niger Delta in southeastern Nigeria might finally be coming to an end. President Umaru Mousa Yar'Adua announced an amnesty deal for rebels and promised billions of dollars of investment in the poor but oil-rich delta, a 10% stake for the local population in the region's oil ventures and a small monthly stipend and re-training for ex-fighters. In return, thousands of militants declared a ceasefire and handed in their weapons, while their leaders initiated talks with the government on an eventual...
...solution looked possible because Nigeria's government was finally conceding that the rebels' demands - increased development and the environmental repair of the delta - were justified. "The militants are not asking for anything unusual or extraordinary," Defense Minister Godwin Abbe told TIME at his offices in the capital Abuja earlier this month. Just as significant, a petroleum industry bill was also introduced promising greater transparency in a notoriously opaque business - a sign the government was willing to crack down on the kind of corruption that has served Nigeria so badly, fueling unrest not only in the delta but the north...
...imports, according to the EIA. But in recent years, rebel attacks on oil targets - blowing up pipelines and kidnapping foreign oil workers - have cut Nigeria's production by as much as a third and regularly caused the world price of crude to spike. Peace in the delta would mean more reliable supplies of oil and cheaper prices at the pump...
...Delta Air Lines - You can reschedule any flight today with no charge as long as the plane leaves no later than Friday. Several flights tomorrow today have already been cancelled, including many flights leaving to New York, Washington and Delta's hub, Atlanta, before...
...Green fans, reportedly men’s soccer players and Alpha Delta fraternity members, peppered uncreative criticisms (“dick”, “****sucker”) and standard chauvinist jabs directed at the women (“whores,” “sluts”) with some food-related fare, reportedly inquiring as to whether captain Frank E. Cohen '10 had a preference for bagels. They later defended the comments as a reference to his having zero games at the time, but his parents took the remark to be anti-Semitic...