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Nigeria must own up to the blood shed for oil
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 10th, 2015
Guardian: The Nigerian government is struggling to confront its past abuses, and nowhere is this clearer than in the case of the Ogoni nine, the environmental activists from the Niger Delta hanged in 1995 by the Sani Abacha regime on trumped-up charges.
I was five years old when playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa, a leading figure in the Ogoni people’s movement, was executed alongside eight others, and I lived through the legacy of his fight to protect the oil-rich land by Shell and other corporations.
As a young...
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Hotel Providence: new home for dispossessed in Brazil mining flood
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 10th, 2015
Reuters: For those that lost everything in the deadly flood caused by two breached dams at a mine in Brazil, this former convent boarding school in the old center of Mariana is now home.
The 19th century blue and white hotel with a statue of the Virgin Mary above the door, bustles with activity as children chase each other down the long corridors seemingly unaware of the psychologists attending to the grief stricken.
In the chapel two 4-year-old girls play in piles of donated clothes, wrinkling tops...