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...NIGERIA Tit for Tat Nigerian soldiers gunned down at least 130 people, including women and children, before President Olusegun Obasanjo ordered them to stop. The killings were to avenge the hacking to death of 19 soldiers sent into Makurdi, capital of the central state of Benue, to keep warring Tiv and Jukun tribes apart...
...NIGERIA Calm after Riots Business resumed in the city of Kano after community leaders agreed to end violence between Christian and Muslim gangs. Police said 32 people died in recent clashes that drove thousands of people from their homes. Red Cross estimates put the toll far higher. President Olusegun Obasanjo toured the northern city after the riots, which began as anti-American protests...
Among the remaining members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Venezuela and Nigeria are the biggest exporters to the United States, accounting for 1.5 million BPD and 0.9 million BPD in 2000, respectively. This puts OPEC supplies to the U.S. at just over 5.1 million BPD. Somewhat surprisingly, non-OPEC nations account for 5.9 million BPD, meaning that OPEC accounts for only 46 percent of American imports. Among the non-OPEC states, we receive 1.7 million BPD from Canada, 1.3 million BPD from Mexico, and 0.3 million each from Colombia, Norway and the United Kingdom...
...available. Russia exports a net (production minus internal consumption) 4.3 million BPD alone, of which we capture virtually nothing. Norway exports 3.1 million BPD, of which we get only 10 percent. Venezuela, an exporter of 2.7 million BPD, sends only 55 percent, or 1.5 million BPD to the U.S. Nigeria exports 1.9 million BPD, of which only 0.9 million BPD, or 47 percent, arrives in the U.S. Mexico, which directs 1.3 of its 1.4 million BPD exports to the United States, is contributing just about as much oil to the U.S. market as it can. In total, there are approximately...
...inability to secure peace in a country that had seen constant fighting for the past seven years. Determined to tear down the existing governmental regime with maximum speed and strength, Koroma reinstated Foday Sankoh to a leadership position in RUF after he had been in exile in nearby Nigeria for starting the civil...