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...cleansing," according to Abiola, has resulted in the jailing and execution of many Nigerian environmental activists who believe Shell and other oil production com- panies are exploiting Nigerian resources and harming the nation...
...Shell said it was not their responsibility and that it wasn't in their agreement with the Nigerian government," she added...
More than 100 people, including human rights activists and the daughter of the elected president of Nigeria, gathered at a candle-lit vigil last night for Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nigerian environmentalist and activist executed last Friday...
...boycott of Nigeria's crucial oil industry. But Purvis reports that South African officials may not want to take it that far. "Indeed, it is not clear how much of an effect censure from South Africa and a few other countries on the continent might have on the Nigerian regime," he says. "Still, South Africa's actions so far may be the beginning of a new era of self-censure in African politics...
...After the last two decades of the fantastic growth of corruption...people just feel you might as well get on the gravy train," said Larry Diamond, a Nigerian specialist and senior research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institute...