Week of June 13, 2009
Decline in the Delta
The oil crisis has affected all business, including small-scale businesses conducted by peasants. Photo by Sam Olukoya.
Description
Nigeria is the eighth-largest oil exporter in the world, and all the oil comes from just one region in the south of the country: the Niger Delta. Multinational oil companies make billions of dollars a year from crude oil exports, but ordinary people in the Delta don't see any of that money.
In recent years, rebel groups have taken up arms to fight for local control of the region's oil resources. The military has been striking back. The resulting conflict has devastated the region's economy.
Sam Olukoya produced this report from Port Harcourt, with Ernest Waititu narrating.
