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Journeying into the Niger Delta

Our journey into Nigeria’s violence-prone, oil-rich Niger Delta region begins in the marbled corridors of the ministries of defence and information in the government capital Abuja.

Its pristine skyscrapers are a world apart from the hundreds of mangrove creeks and ravines dotted across six Nigerian oil-producing states. There, a low level on–off war has been waging for years between Nigerian security forces and thousands of men fighting for a greater share of the billions of dollars that oil exports earn Africa’s most populous nation.