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Njemanze demolitions: Social and economic effects - Mon, 12 Jul 2010
Sweetcrude: Vanguard's monthly review of the Nigerian Energy Industry - Mon, 12 Jul 2010
Comprehensive Niger Delta Environmental Survey released - Thu, 8 Jul 2010
Revenue Watch: Nigeria Considers creating new Sovereign Wealth Fund to promote sustainavble development - Thu, 8 Jul 2010
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child concluding observations - Thu, 17 Jun 2010
Official reports, declarations, constitutions and Legislation relating to the Niger Delta - Wed, 14 Apr 2010
Fuelling Discord: Oil and Conflict in Three Niger Delta Communities - Fri, 19 Feb 2010
Citizens Report on State and Local Government Budgets in the Niger Delta - Mon, 18 Jan 2010
Port Harcourt Waterfront Urban Regeneration - Scoping Study - Thu, 7 Jan 2010
killing at will - unlawful killings by the police in nigeria - Tue, 15 Dec 2009
Nigeria’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: Just a Glorious Audit? - Thu, 10 Dec 2009
Report of The Technical Committee on the Niger Delta - Wed, 7 Oct 2009
Alternatives to demolitions - Abonnema Wharf Community - Fri, 4 Sep 2009
Demolition of Njemanze Waterfront - Factsheet from SDN Partners SERAC - Fri, 4 Sep 2009
Thirst for African Oil: Asian National Oil Companies in Nigeria and Angola - Wed, 2 Sep 2009
UN Habitat: Evictions and Demolitions in Port Harcourt - Tue, 1 Sep 2009
Amnesty International: Petroleum, pollution and poverty in the Niger Delta - Fri, 3 Jul 2009
Feature: Up in Smoke - Nigeria's continued reliance on gas flaring - Thu, 9 Apr 2009
Minority Rights Echoes at Nigeria's United Nations Review - Mon, 16 Mar 2009
Niger Delta's Civil Society Organisations recommendations on the human rights situation in Nigeria - Mon, 16 Mar 2009
Fuelling Discord: Oil and Conflict in Three Niger Delta Communities
There is an alarming increase in the incidences of communal conflicts in the petroleum bearing Niger Delta area. These conflicts, which very often manifest in full-blown wars within and between communities, have resulted in the killing of numerous community members and the destruction of whole villages and towns. At the root of these conflicts is the manner of oil and gas exploitation and policies of the government and oil and gas companies in security contracting, ‘surveillance’, execution of ‘community development’ projects etc.
Decades of impoverishment of the local people, destruction of their sources of livelihood, pollution of their environment through oil spillages and endless gas flaring, joblessness and neglect of the community by the oil companies and government among others, worked as catalysts for conflict. As communities impacted by petroleum exploitation seek ways of redress, different manifestations of conflicts are being experienced. This report examined the evolution of three cases (Ogoni, Rumuekpe and Ikarama) to explain the remote and immediate causes of communal crises in oil bearing communities in the Niger Delta area.
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