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		<title>Legal Oil, Ethical Oil and Profiteering in the Niger Delta and the Canadian North</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this guest blog post, Professor Anna Zalik of York University Canada explores how governments and multinationals criminalise protest and gloss over the environmental injustices of oil extraction. Q: What does the Canadian Government’s fury at opponents of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline have to do with the Nigerian &#8216;legaloil&#8217; campaign? A: Both positions are about justifying private profits and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Crude: the movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To an oil company, it&#8217;s liquid gold.&#8221; That&#8217;s how filmmaker Sandi Cioffi describes Nigerian oil, known as &#8216;sweet crude&#8217; because it is low in sulphur and therefore cheaper and easier to refine. The trailer below is for Sweet Crude, the film. An amazing and insightful documentary by Sandi Cioffi, it looks at the appalling legacy of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/sweet-crude-the-movie/</link>
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		<title>Shell funds militant clashes in Nigeria: exclusive interviews with Platform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BBC Business Daily conducted an in-depth interview with researcher Ben Amunwa about Platform&#8217;s new report, titled Counting the Cost, on Shell&#8217;s human rights abuses in the Niger Delta. Shell were invited to the interview but refused to attend. The BBC World Service broadcast the interview to hundred millions of listeners worldwide this morning. You can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/shell-funds-militant-clashes-in-nigeria-exclusive-interviews-with-platform/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Blood And Oil&#8217;: BBC Drama on the Niger Delta Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Niger Delta crisis is coming to an audience of millions as BBC 2 screen the long anticipated and award-winning drama, ‘Blood and Oil’ on prime time television. Guy Hibbert’s tense thriller (starring Naomi Harris (28 Days Later), Johdi May (Defiance) Patterson Joseph and David Oyelowo) follows two women as they investigate the  circumstances that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War for Oil in the Niger Delta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past few months, the Nigerian military has waged war on the Niger Delta in a desperate attempt to restore Nigeria’s faltering oil production, which has almost halved due to security concerns. Tuesday 15th September is due to be the last day of the ceasefire observed by MEND, the main group of insurgents in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remembersarowiwa.com/nigeria-war-for-oil-in-the-niger-delta/</link>
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		<title>Flawed logic of Nigeria&#8217;s response to insurgency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is there any logic to the Nigerian Federal Government’s latest offer of amnesty to armed insurgents in the oil-rich Delta region? The offer follows one of the largest military offensives in the region, in which hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed and many thousands displaced. The government’s idea of winning the hearts and minds [...]]]></description>
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