Posts tagged with nigeria
Sokari Ekine, Friday, October 31, 2008
Accused of ‘sponsoring a guerilla news agency’, Nigerian Blogger,
Jonathan Elendu, has been arrested and illegally detained by the
ominously named Nigerian SSS.
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Sokari Ekine, Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Hundreds of Nigerian prisoners are being held on death row many of whom have been tortured or whose trials were not conducted properly according to a new report by Amnesty International.
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Sokari Ekine, Thursday, October 16, 2008
Just over two years ago the Spanish government - desperate to stop
migrant workers from crossing into Spain from the Sahara - came to an
agreement with the Senegalese government to deploy their coast guard.
They also agreed to set up a school for youths in the hope that would
stop them from selling DVDs and umbrellas in Granada and Barcelona. It
didn't. Thousands more came
and are still coming. They put up electric fences in Morocco and
arranged with the Moroccan police to deport migrants - many were dumped
in the desert by the Moroccan authorities. With Morocco closed,
Mauritania became the new departure point for crossing into Spain. The
Atlantic waters being far more treacherous than the Mediterranean has
meant thousands drowning in the small wooden boats during the
crossings. In one of the most horrendous crossings, 47 Senegalese were left adrift to die in the Atlantic. The boat with the bodies was eventually found in Barbados.
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Sokari Ekine, Monday, September 15, 2008
Nigeria’s Bauchi State is acting as a “dating agency” by arranging for HIV+ people to meet each other with the aim of getting married and reducing the spread of HIV.
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Jess Worth, Thursday, June 5, 2008
So Shell's finally been given its marching orders by the Nigerian Government, after many bloody years of pollution, repression and conflict with local communities.
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