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To: Tomas who wrote (11374)7/13/2002 10:30:06 PM
From: kormac  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 206209
 
Nigerian women seize oil terminal
Demand jobs for sons: Non-violent action a departure from usual protests

Peter Goodspeed
National Post

Friday, July 12, 2002

Hundreds of impoverished Nigerian women, armed with nothing more than bundles of food and cooking pots, have hijacked one of Africa's largest oil terminals to demand jobs for their sons and electrical power for their villages.

Claiming they are tired of living in perpetual poverty in the shadow of a multi-billion-dollar Chevron oil terminal in the middle of the swamps of the Niger delta, hundreds of local women seized control of the huge Escravos Island oil depot and tank farm on Monday.

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