Nigeria

After Decades, Oil Giant Shell Agrees to Pay $111 Million for Destruction in Nigeria

"It has opened the floodgate for more communities in the Niger Delta to seek redress for the environmental monstrosity that has devastated them in the past 50 years."

Jessica Corbett · Aug 12, 2021

Okavango, Oil Drilling, and the Tragedy of Africa

Nnimmo Bassey · May 12, 2021

Amid National Reckoning on Police Brutality, Omar Reintroduces Bold Reform Bills

Jenna McGuire · Apr 28, 2021

13 Years Is Too Long for Victims of Shell's Oil Spills to Wait for Justice

Donald Pols · Feb 8, 2021

"After 13 Years, Justice!" Dutch Court Orders Shell Oil to Pay for Harm Done to Nigerian Farmers

Andrea Germanos · Jan 29, 2021

A Mother in ICE Detention Pleads for Her Life

No one deserves to die from COVID-19 because of government abuse and indifference. The government has a duty to adequately and humanely care for those it has taken and detained.

Tatalu Helen Dada · Apr 9, 2020

Nigeria Reports Chloroquine Overdoses After Trump—Without Evidence—Touted Drug as Possible Coronavirus Treatment

"It only took a day for the president's tweets to get people hospitalized."

Jake Johnson · Mar 23, 2020

Largely Driven by Climate Crisis, 9 Out of 10 Least-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2019 Were in Africa

"Does a crisis really happen if it is not in the headlines? YES."

Julia Conley · Jan 28, 2020

A Lesson from West Africa, a Global Inequality Ground Zero

To end poverty at the bottom of our economic orders, we need to stop wealth from concentrating at the top.

Sam Pizzigati · Jul 30, 2019

UN Agency Decries 'Shocking Scale' of Attacks on Children in Conflict Zones

"Children are being targeted and exposed to attacks and brutal violence in their homes, schools, and playgrounds."

Jessica Corbett · Dec 28, 2017

Violence Spreads the Famine, and the Famine Will Spread Violence

In relation to conflict-driven famines, it becomes even more imperative to resist the U.S. government's allocation of $700 billion to the Department of Defense

Kathy Kelly · Oct 1, 2017

In a "World of Plenty," G7 Must Fight Famine

'Political failure has led to these crises—political leadership is needed to resolve them'

Tharanga Yakupitiyage, IPS News · May 27, 2017

It’s Time to Reawaken the Spirit of Occupy for the Starving Millions

How is it possible that so many people still die from severe malnutrition and lack of access to basic resources in the 21st century? The time has come for a huge resurgence of the spirit that animated Occupy protests from 2011, but now focused on the worsening reality of mass starvation in the midst of plenty.

Adam Parsons · May 6, 2017