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Protesting Shell Oil's ties to the Nigerian government, 50 people shouted insults and waved signs in a demonstration at the Cambridge Shell gasoline station on Saturday afternoon...
Members of the Nigerian Advocacy Group for Democracy (NAGD) and Cambridge activists demonstrated en masse, mourning last year's slaying of nine Ogoni activists, including playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa...
Demonstrators said they targeted Shell not only for the company's relations with a government notorious for its human rights violations, but also because oil drilling methods harm local Nigerian agriculture and rain forests...
...majority of Nigerian military money comes from oil, Simons said, adding that "it is generally well-accepted that if Shell wanted to stop the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, they could have...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Attorney General Janet Reno announced the U.S. made 34 arrests in five cities Friday to break up an international heroin smuggling ring. Operated mainly by Nigerian women, and encouraged by Nigeria's military government, the organization moved heroin from Southeast Asia through Central America and Mexico and into the United States. Working in cooperation with police in Thailand, France and Britain, federal prosecutors and agents took almost a year to build their case and make arrests. President Clinton had high praise for the operation, which he said was part of U.S. effort to cripple major international drug-trafficking...