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Article

9 Nov 2005

Author:
Austin Ekeinde, Reuters

Ogonis see rare peace chance in Nigeria oil delta

Competing interests in Nigeria's oil delta have an opportunity to defuse tensions that threaten peace, security and oil production, the successor to executed activist Ken Saro-Wiwa said on Wednesday. Ledum Mitee, head of the ethnic nationalist Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), challenged authorities, militants and oil multinationals to pull the Niger Delta back from the edge of chaos. [refers to Shell]