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Tullow Oil’s Sunderland AFC sponsorship ends amid controversy
Last year we raised some concerns about a new sponsorship deal between Tullow Oil and Sunderland football club, aka Sunderland AFC. Only it wasn’t actually Tullow that was doing the sponsoring, it was a strange body called Invest In Africa, that was all about promoting Africa (homogenous and undifferentiated continent that it is) as a…
11 Apr 2013 admin -
Rewriting the future: Achebe, literature, and activism
Nigerian write Chinua Achebe died last Thursday at the age of 83. He is a key figure in world literature and a writer who along with others utterly changed the way cultures pre- and post-imperialism – and pre-missionary – imagined representing themselves. In so doing, he bolstered the challenge to western and white supremacist…
25 Mar 2013 jane -
التكالب على بترول مصر
فى مقر نادى مرتفعات القطامية، وسط المروج الخُضر المشذبة وملعب الجولف، ناقش مديرون تنفيذيون من جنسيات مختلفة، جنبا إلى جنب مع مسئولين حكوميين اتفاقيات من شأنها تحديد مآل مليارات الدولارات؛ هل تستقر فى خزائن خاصة أم تذهب للخزانة العامة. تغييرات بسيطة فى عقد واحد قد تؤدى إلى إحداث فارق يزيد على الخمسة مليارات من الدولارات،…
7 Mar 2013 admin -
Report: Shell gushed cash on Nigeria security
Al Jazeera – August 20, 2012
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Nigeria took 40 pct of Shell security spend in late 2000s-NGO
Reuters – August 20, 2012
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Shell paid Nigeria millions to guard oil facilities
AFP – August 20, 2012
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Shell spending millions of dollars on security in Nigeria, leaked data shows
The Guardian – August 19, 2012
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Shell ‘paying tens of millions to Nigerian security forces’
The Telegraph – August 19, 2012
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The price of gas: imports, repression and fuel poverty
In a deplorable attack on the right to protest energy giant EDF is attempting to sue 21 activists for £5mn in a civil action. The No Dash for Gas campaigners occupied West Burton gas power station for 7 days by scaling two of the three 91m high cooling towers, brave people. They are going to…
21 Feb 2013 admin
