Übersetzung für "Nigerdelta" in Englisch

Dolphins FC are a Nigerian football team based in Port Harcourt.

Yet the oil-rich region in the south of the Niger Delta is not yet affected.

The river's delta contains the largest mangrove forest in eastern Africa.

Even in Nigeria's most important oil-producing region, the Niger Delta, the human rights situation is disastrous.

The tapping of pipelines is also polluting large areas of the Niger Delta.

The extent of environmental destruction in the Niger Delta is gigantic.

The north typically provides the presidents and the Niger Delta the vice-presidents.

For several years there's been unrest in the Niger Delta.

ConocoPhillips, a US-company that has been operating in the Niger Delta for 46 years, received 1.7 billion US-dollars when selling their boreholes.

According to the estimations of environmentalists, up to two billion litres of oil have since been spilled into the Niger Delta.

The fact that the long absence of President Yar'Adua plunged western Nigeria into a political crisis, that there were serious clashes between Christians and Muslims in the central Nigerian town of Jos and that the ceasefire in the oil-rich Niger delta has come to an end does not bode well for the future, following the death of the president.

Before the financial resources allocated to the Niger Delta are increased, total transparency should be ensured and dialogue between all the stakeholders established.

While one of the focal sectors of EU development cooperation with Nigeria is supporting and promoting good governance at federal and state level, the Commission is also engaged in financing Community projects in the Niger Delta and is about to approve a project to support non-state actors.

For decades, major oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, have been producing oil in the Niger Delta, an ecologically fragile environment of freshwater swamp forests, mangroves, lowland rainforests, and coastal barrier islands.

Shell, the largest foreign operator in the Niger Delta, has been criticized repeatedly for its egregious practices and its unwillingness to be held to account.

Last year, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) issued a remarkable report on Ogoniland, a major ethnic homeland in the Niger Delta that has been at the epicenter of conflict between local communities and international oil.

Indeed, just as BP was being hit with new criminal penalties, ExxonMobil announced yet another pipeline leak in the Niger Delta.

"Tembakounda is the location of the source of the Niger River, West Africa's longest river, which eventually empties at the Niger Delta into the Gulf of Guinea distant.

The electoral committee noted for example that in the city Warri in the Niger delta of 135,739 voters, 133,529 voted for the parliamentary election.

Also, Nigerians need to decide whether all beneficiaries receive equal shares, or whether those who face the environmental consequences of oil exploration and production -- for example, in the Nigerian delta -- should receive more.

While the majority of the business elite is from one of the three main ethnic groups--Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and Yoruba--its members recognize that oil drives the economy, and that the bulk of it comes from the Niger delta, inhabited by minority groups such as the Ogoni and the Ijo.

But Yar’Adua shrugged off charges of electoral fraud, and in the first days of his presidency, he drew praise, both at home and abroad, for promises to tackle corruption and pursue an agreement with militia groups in the oil-rich, violence-plagued Niger Delta region.

The country’s mounting problems – rampant official corruption, decaying social and physical infrastructure, and growing ethnic and religious insurgencies in the northeast, central region, the southeast, and Niger Delta – are yet to be seriously tackled.

The Niger Delta region, home to most of Nigeria’s oil and many of its poor people, is in turmoil.

Facing the sharp end of the stick are the seven million Niger delta peasants, who bear the brunt of the violence, environmental devastation, and social anarchy that Big Oil produces wherever it sets up its drilling rigs.