Workers remove dead mangroves during the clean-up of Bodo, a village in the Niger Delta devasted by oil spills from ruptured Shell-owned pipelines in 2008 and 2009.Photo: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters

Big oil's big con

Communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta are rising up against Big Oil’s retreat, as decades of environmental devastation and government neglect leave them exposed. Obiora Ikoku reports.

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NI 554 - Indigenous sovereignty in Australia - March, 2025
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Get out

Report from Spain by Eoin Wilson.

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NI 522 - China in charge - November, 2019
Photo: Iqbal Hossein

Southern Exposure

Iqbal Hossein photographs Rohingya refugees, and hears their harrowing experiences.

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