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- Nigeria Militants Will Attack Trans-Sahara Pipe If Built (DJ)
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- A Nigerian militant group on Saturday reiterated that foreign oil companies should leave the Niger Delta and threatened a planned trans-Saharan pipeline project. In an e-mail, a spokesman for the Movement for the Emancipation of the
- West Africa: Trans-Sahara Pipeline to Send Gas to Europe
Lagos Three African countries yesterday signed an accord to build a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe. The project would convey gas destined for the European market more than 4,000 kilometres (2,485 miles)
- $10-billion plan would ship gas from Africa to Europe
Nigeria, Algeria and Niger have signed an agreement to create a $10-billion pipeline that would ship gas across the Saharan desert to Europe, Nigeria's state oil company said Friday. The plan comes as Europe seeks new sources of gas imports as it
- Sahara pipeline to transport gas from West Africa to Europe
Nigeria, Algeria and Niger have signed an agreement to build a pipeline across the Sahara that would link Europe to big west African gas reserves. The Trans-Sahara Pipeline project, which would cost at least $10 billion for the pipeline and another $3bn
- Sahara pipeline plan to feed west African gas to Europe
Nigeria, Algeria and Niger have signed an agreement to build a pipeline across the Sahara that would link Europe to big west African gas reserves. The Trans-Sahara Pipeline project, which would cost at least US$10 billion (Dh37.7bn) for the pipeline and
- Nigeria: Petroleum, pollution and poverty in the Niger Delta
CASE STUDY: THE OIL SPILL AT BODO 5, 2008 If you want to go fishing, you have to paddle for about four hours through several rivers before you can get to where you can catch fish and the spill is lesser ? some of the fishes we catch, when you open the
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Niger became independent from France in 1960 and experienced single-party and military rule until 1991, when Gen. Ali SAIBOU was forced by public pressure to allow multiparty elections, which resulted in a democratic government in 1993. Political infighting brought the government to a standstill and in 1996 led to a coup by Col. Ibrahim BARE. In 1999 BARE was killed in a coup by military officers who promptly restored democratic rule and held elections that brought Mamadou TANDJA to power in December of that year. TANDJA was reelected in 2004. Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world with minimal government services and insufficient funds to develop its resource base. The largely agrarian and subsistence-based economy is frequently disrupted by extended droughts common to the Sahel region of Africa.
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AFP - Nigerian armed group MEND threatened Saturday to thwart a 10-billion-dollar trans-Saharan gas pipeline project linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe.
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