A R A B I C A ارابيكا YEMEN*Al Jazeera reports that hundreds of Yemenis are packing and leaving Sanaa as gun battles continue throughout the city between supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and a powerful tribal chief who defected and joined the opposition. Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar is the head of a tribal federation […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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. […]
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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.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 In Bolo Creek there are around 40 illegal refineries.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 A man is refining crude oil in an illegal refinery in Bolo Creek.
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 Atteke Tom boys are arriving to the camp 9 hidden in the mangrove.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 Atteke Tom boys are arriving to Camp 9, hidden in of the mangroves.
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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.
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NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA | JULY 2009 MEND fighters under Atteke Tom in the mangrove in the Niger Delta.
After European campuses open in China and India, a top French business school has set up shop on the North Carolina State University campus to give its students a shot at American jobs. Other European institutions hope to follow.
The alleged victim is an immigrant from northern Guinea, and her ethnicity is Fulani, who are known as pious, hardworking Muslims
A R A B I C A ارابيكا PROPAGANDA MACHINEState media coverage in the Arab world shares a number of traits. Whether its urgent, front-page coverage for various leaders sending and receiving cables of condolence and congratulations, or “news’ reports that raise more questions then they answer, state media is largely an anachronistic propaganda conglomerate […]
Top French brands L’Oréal and Christian Dior are leading the hunt for fashion “ambassadors” who have a story, and substance, behind the pretty face.
A report by a pair of German academics accuses the Left Party of becoming increasingly anti-Semitic. While the party’s top leadership dismisses the yet-unpublished study as “nonsense,” others within the Left say there may be some truth to the allegations.
This week’s Africa-India Forum Summit in Ethiopia shows how hungry India is for Africa’s energy resources and minerals. Twenty years after China began to arrive on the continent, this reportage shows how large Indian companies are eager
With Internet piracy taking a major bite out of their bottom line, adult film producers are going three dimensional in an effort to lure new, paying customers.
A R A B I C A ارابيكا AUTO REVOLUTION*The fallout from the arrest of a Saudi woman, Manal al-Sharif, continues. Last week, al-Sharif posted a video of her driving in east Saudi Arabia on YouTube. She was arrested and remains in custody for violating the public order. The Facebook reaction was swift. The “I […]
Officially dissolved in 1992, the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) continues to exert influence in Algeria, where it recently helped negotiate the release of 7,000 prisoners from the country’s bloody civil war. It may be the boost the Islamic group needs to
Editorial: At the E-G8 in Paris, world leaders and digital stars could build the foundations of a new dialogue — and expand the ‘infrastructure’ — to allow for the Internet to bloom, and the economy to reap the benefits.
Best known for his operas, Gioachino Rossini also had quite a flair for culinary composition. That hardly comes as a surprise considering he grew up on Italy’s Adriatic coast, which continues to wow visitors with its natural beauty, exquisite architecture
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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 […]
A R A B I C A ارابيكا TO DRIVE OR NOT TO DRIVE*A Saudi woman named Manal al-Sharif was arrested for violating the public order after she was caught driving in the eastern part of the country. *Budoor tweets, “King Abdullah signals that women will soon be allowed to drive!” linking to an interview […]
Jailed and tortured under Muammar al-Gaddafi, whose son ran the rival team, Benghazi’s local club supporters are now at the heart of the Libyan revolution.
In the small Greek village of Kalapodi, German archaeologists have excavated one of the primary Greek sanctuaries of the ancient world: the Oracle of Abai.
The “spectacle” that the American judicial system has made of Dominique Strauss-Kahn is not only “unbearable,” it is also “disgraceful,” argues French sociologist Michel Fize.
Situated at the heart of the Xinjiang region, Karamay is rich in oil and increasingly vital to China’s energy strategy. The ‘black gold’ has fueled local development, and transformed this sleepy backwater. But ethnic splits could create conflict.
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Ferran Adria’s Final Menu
The Catalan genius of molecular gastronomy is tired of cooking people meals, and is set on closing his restaurant El Bulli. But the final few months, and very last meal, is the maximum of foodie exclusivity.
The revolt in the Arab world is featured in several participants at this year’s film festival in France, as newfound freedom is celebrated in celluloid, if not yet incomplete in practice.
A R A B I C A ارابيكا SYRIA LIVE*On the Friday billed as the “Day of Freedom,” the Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera satellite channels unveiled a double blow to the regime of Bashar al-Assad: Both channels aired live feeds of massive protests around the country. It is not clear how this happened since […]
Editorial: The next IMF chief should hail from the Old Continent, and the best European candidate is (another) French Finance Minister, says France’s top business daily
Speaking English during state visits to China and Chinese when visiting the West, long-serving leader of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew walked a delicate line between cultures while bringing his small nation into the economic big leagues.
A shrinking budget, and ever increasing influence of private actors could spell the end of the UN agency as we know it.
After a trip to the region, European Parliament Member Daniel Cohn-Bendit is convinced that Israelis and Palestinians can “be realistic and create the impossible”: two independent states.