Ijaw militants in oil-rich Niger Delta

Photo: Three armed Ijaw militants watch television at Okorota, one of their village hideouts in the mangrove swamps of the Niger Delta. Nigeria's bid to appease the separatist forces threatening to tear her apart plunged into crisis when leaders from the oil-rich Niger Delta stormed out of a political reform conference. (AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei July 11, 2005)



Photo: A malnourished child waits for treatment at a feeding center run by the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontiers in the town of Maradi in southern Niger July 1, 2005. The situation in Niger highlights Africa's plight days ahead of next week's Group of Eight industrialized nations summit in Scotland, where Britain plans to put fighting poverty on the (Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters July 12, 2005)

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