Word: harcourt
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...succeeded only in creating more Islamic militants. What Israel is doing in Lebanon can be equated with terrorism. The U.S. must always lead by example and show the world that it has a soul. America's defense of freedom and human rights should not be selective. Obiora Muanya Port Harcourt, Nigeria...
...vast majority of the people of the Delta still live in severe and visible poverty. One of the first activists to speak out against this imbalance was businessman, TV writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, from the Ogoni region, east of Nigeria's oil capital Port Harcourt. Saro-Wiwa preached nonviolence, but Nigeria's then military government charged him with having "counseled and procured" the murder of four Ogoni elders, and in 1995 hanged him, to international condemnation. Despite the return to democracy and government promises to improve the lives of Delta dwellers, little has changed. Today in Oporoza...
...latest attacks appear to have been driven more by frustration and an ideology of armed resistance than by thoughts of criminal gain. While it is "very difficult to draw a line between the criminals and the so-called liberators," according to Anyakwee Nsirimovu, a human-rights lawyer in Port Harcourt, "You do now have groups that articulate certain policies and ideas and principles." Those principles - the oil belongs to us; give us development and compensation or get out - have been cemented by the Nigerian government's handling of the crisis. Dokubo-Asari was little known when he began, say activists...
...house. A young man tells the police that he won't go with them to the station and warns: "If you fire [shoot at] me, I fire you." "There is overwhelming community sympathy for what they are doing," says Ledum Mitee, a human-rights campaigner in Port Harcourt, who describes the Delta's problems as "a crisis of frustration," which he hopes can be solved without violence. "[The militants] are seen as people who can stand up to the oppressors." Mitee heads the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (mosop), the group founded by Saro-Wiwa. In January...
...should be neater, of course," says Joy Imobighe, a hotel accountant in Port Harcourt, when asked her whether she supports the Bank's campaign. "The neatness to a certain extent determines the value." And as the unorthodox marketing campaign makes clear, Nigeria's authorities would prefer that the Naira be worth a whole lot more...