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by Phil Lee — last modified Jul 04, 2009 06:31 PM Ahead of the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy, the alternative G8 summit is taking place in Sardinia. Nnimmo Bassey Chair of Friends of the Earth International is there. I should have mentioned that there are three of us here from the FoEI family. Anne-Sophie Simpere of Les Amis de la Terre, France is here. Also here is BAsilo Tzoy Grijalva of the Council for the Protection of the territory of Indigenous people, Guatemala. His organisation related with FoE Guatemala. Today’s events are organised in panels and will conclude at midnight after the screening of La Ricaduta, a documentary on irresponsible extractions in the Niger Delta. There will also be a special testimony by a citizen of Abruzzo – the earthquake region where ENI wants to extract crude. The people of Aruzzo don’t... [read full story]
and has 225 affiliated organizations in 148 countries. Affiliates are unions, union confederations or peak level associations. Association maintains close links with different UN bodies and has consultative status in some of...
Numbering Only 50 in 1996, Niger Subspecies of Giraffe Swells to 200 Today Thanks to Conservation Efforts (AP) A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a...
The Delta State government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations Office of Project Services (UNOPS) and Loughborough College, United Kingdom, on conflict resolution in the restive Niger Delta region.
The 10 per cent equity from oil interest proposed by the Federal Government for oil producing communities will be incorporated into the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) and passed into law by the National Assembly before its...
