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[Nigeria] The Niger Delta, which produces all of Nigeria's oil, has not benefitted from the oil wealth and has suffered environmental degradation. IRIN
Village dans la région pétrolifère du delta du Niger
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    Meanwhile, Eric Courly, a hydraulic engineer with Action Contre la Faim (ACF), who had been kidnapped by ethnic Somali gunmen of the Ogaden National Liberation front (ONLF) in Ethiopia on 4 April, was released on Monday afternoon, a press release from ACF stated. It made no mention of where he was set free. The French aid worker had been "convicted" of helping Ethiopian forces by his ONLF kidnappers but was later "pardoned". An ONLF representative in Mogadishu told the DPA news agency that his organisation had contacted the ICRC in Addis Ababa and turned Courly over to a Red Cross delegation.

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