Nigeria: August 5, 2003

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Unrest continues in the Niger Delta oil fields. Local tribesmen (and sometimes women) occupy oil facilities and demand payoffs before they will leave. Today, local men occupied a pumping station, that usually moves 90,000 barrels a day (worth over $2.5 million). The police are reluctant to intervene, fearing that such action might spark more violence incidents. 

 

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