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The fog of war, the port of Benghazi. ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

Near Brega, planning tactics for the next battle. ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

Damage near the Mosque at the east gate of Adjabiya. ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

A rebel unit from Benghazi. $©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

Rebels on the road between Ras lanuf and Sirt. ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

The western town of Sullum, Egypt is the entry point for those few, mostly aid workers and journalists, looking to get into Libya. ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

Inside the security prison in Bengazi, where the uprising began. ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

The scorched earth left near the prison in Benghazi where the uprising began. ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

On the way from Tobruk to Bengazi. ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

Northern Libya is dotted by Roman-era ruins ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

People return to their houses in Adjabiya after the rebels regain control of the city. Ibrahim Absullam’s house was bombed Gaddafi forces. ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

The ultimate price of war. ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

After rebels take the city of Adjabiya. ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

An injured man thought to be a mercenary soldier for Libyan government forces. ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

On the front line for the battle of Ajdabia. ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

The shifting front line for rebel troops moving in on the city of Ajdabia. ©DavideMonteleone/Contrasto

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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 In Bolo creek, the villagers are bunkering the oil from Shell facilities and refining it to sell it on the black market. Around 30 to 40 illegal refineries can be found all over the creek. The strong presence of the militants is keeping away the army and the police […]

NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 In Niger delta, oil is everywhere in the soil. But even though the locals are walking on it, they do not get any benefit out of this black gold.

NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 Pipelines are going through the Okrika village. The old pipelines are leaking and sometimes bursting like two months ago, torching down nearby habitations.

NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 In Okugaju, the local population stays very poor despite the oil they are sitting on. The villagers want their share of their country welfare. For them, no electricity, no tap water, no road, just a highly polluted water where they cannot fish anymore because of the oil spills etc. […]

NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 The king Chukumela Nnam Obi II, is very angry at the oil companies (Total, Shell, Agip) who are polluting his kingdom Ogbaland without compensating its people. In the same time, he is taking from the money from them and doing so, encouraging the corruption.

NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 In Bolo Creek there are around 40 illegal refineries.

NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 A man is refining crude oil in an illegal refinery in Bolo Creek.

NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 In Bono, the local population, angry because of the many oil spills and other pollutions, fight for Shell (the oil company) to leave their territory. After two years of fighting, Shell left and the villagers are using its installations to take out some crude oil and sell it to […]

NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 In Bolo creek, the villagers are bunkering the oil from Shell facilities and refining it to sell it on the black market.

NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 A boy is taking away some barrels of crude oil to the place where it will be refined. Around 30 to 40 illegal refineries can be found all over the creek.

NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 Atteke Tom, the big chief of the MEND, with his boys, in one of the eleven camps he rules in the mangrove of the Niger delta.

NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 MEND fighters under Atteke Tom in the mangrove in the Niger Delta.

NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 The time can be long in the mangrove for the Mend fighters, one of them adopted a monkey to play with.

NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 Atteke Tom boys are arriving to the camp 9 hidden in the mangrove.

NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 Atteke Tom boys are arriving to Camp 9, hidden in of the mangroves.

Photo Category | jury international Véronique DE VIGUERIE (Paris Match / Getty Images) “La guerre du pétrole” – Nigéria – Jully 2009 The Prix Bayeux is one of the world’s top journalism awards for reporting on war and conflict, held each year since 1994 in the northern French town of Bayeux. The 2011 edition is […]

Award-winning Italian photojournalist Davide Monteleone recently returned from three weeks covering the war in Libya. The April 20 deaths in the coastal city of Misrata of fellow photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros has added a bitter epitaph to this latest assignment. But sadly, there is still a war to be covered, one more story […]

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