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rothschild desmarais Banned
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject: nigeria seen both by the economist and guerrilla news |
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http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9032254&top_story=1
In Anambra state, for example, opposition candidates were blocked from standing and there was plenty of rigging on the day itself. Many polling stations simply failed to open, or did not have enough materials, particularly a register, to begin any voting. On a tour of about 12 polling stations your correspondent did not find one ballot being cast, just angry mobs of frustrated would-be voters saying that they had been disenfranchised. Barely any polling-stations got a results-sheet, on which the officials and the party agents are supposed to record the number of votes cast for each party; presumably these were being filled in elsewhere.
Things were particularly bad in the oil-rich Delta region, where patently false 95% turn-outs were being recorded in some areas. Voters were routinely intimidated by gunmen who also stole ballot-boxes in front of journalists. An observer from Human Rights Watch, a pressure-group, described the vote-rigging as shameless. Privately, EU observers said that in half-a-dozen states there was no real election. Some 50 people are said to have died in violence and protesters burned down several election commission offices.
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http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31012
http://www.essentialaction.org/shell/issues.html
Gas is burned off in the Niger Delta because neither the major oil companies nor the NNPC has invested in facilities to convert the gas into commercial use. As the gas is pumped through the grid of oil pipelines that crisscross the Deltas mangrove swamps, agricultural fields, and even villages, it is flared at various stations, sending huge plumes of flame and smoke into the sky with a constant roar 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6EB9C14C-0EB7-457A-8A44-8ACF7AD0F7E4.htm
Investigators in Nigeria have said that 130 candidates standing in Aprils elections, including the current vice-president, are unfit to hold political office.
source:http://sisyphus.gnn.tv/blogs/21527/Blood_Oil _________________ If you want doha, you've got to give us tobin.
L'état devrait s'occuper d'aider les petites entreprises et le programme d'éducation des petites villes. |
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