for the past two years the battle has raged at the mouth of the niger river pitting local militants against government forces and multinational oil companies. when i first arrived here i had just a basic understanding of the nature of the conflict. the jury is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the united states is the eight large six power of oil on the planet but in the niger delta the region that produces hundreds of millions of dollars in oil and gas each year the average person lives on less than one dollar per day there are no there schools no good roads no good hospitals every year over three hundred oil spills contaminate the region and constant flaring of

precious natural gas pollutes the ecosystem. companies and corrupt politicians reap enormous profits the inhabitants of the niger delta live in poverty. under these circumstances it was no surprise to me that a conflict that ignited in which militants pipelines sabotage closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers. who. decide. the truth is i always tend to root for the underdog and i felt an attraction to these men who were taking on the world's largest oil corporations and the corrupt government of africa's most populous nation so i took my camera to nigeria to try to meet them. well.

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see only what you see don't. but. i decided to follow the camp commander's advice traveling with some fishermen i set out to see for myself what life is like in the niger delta and hopes of understanding the conditions out of which the militancy was born. my brother such a life is sweet it's just that there is no money. manage it good life is not

easy. but i had to keep a low profile numerous foreign journalists and documentary filmmakers had already been expelled country. government sources told the greeks and gone on a mission to combat the militants and protect the oil from illegal. and many in the niger delta field as the oil companies and the federal government were robbing the region of oil. we passed by bonnie island or multi-national oil companies like shell. and magic tap into the thirty six billion barrels of oil beneath our feet. and i find myself in a jock or a tiny fishing village that is frequently visited by the. militants from a nearby camp.

i think it's deserved never. the government we have been ugly in the event not to god not to and. not to you about. and i joke. do you think they're no longer here. i beg go out of office. and the strong voice. why can't they find somewhere else to stay. far away. what are they doing.

it looks like they've carry some people in this big bed that they bend to. doesn't it. the guard also hold my guess is it will be bad for them if they run out of bullets. or world we live in is this an urban life or rural life. anew and. are they dragging the other speedboat along there using their guns to signal a child. even in the midst of the conflict so ordinary life takes its course and its twenty three year old named mom goes into labor feel. for. them ok mom a has come. i mean and that's when you're done eating please check your stomach moment.

when she is slow to deliver her father feeds her roots and black pepper a traditional remedy to help speed the birth. that is it is not a minute you're going to want to give you this route to to. take it in sure you come on. to it stand up. the way this thing is no better take it with a pepper and chew it don't know gigantic allow them to take it quickly come on. my stomach and. if you were cheering it you would a finished it already done. all this once the demo is gone then this is. all of them does not speak to you buddy did i did he. is the cause is a need to wish it would and knows how to give a case i loved and yes. some of it was. just given space. it's all a mate no complications arise as mom is such

a lover. no i was well i thought i'd let it come to want to come out now card you can do it do it now doing to zeus the baby emerging with him bill court is wrapped around his neck and he is not present of a good son not. one with. a lot of. life. is that enough do you need sand. done too long or too down do it to first do it to dying take take the sun. bring more bring more what's happened. once. the baby has come take him out take him out.

enough way out then they feel my pains during the delivery naima pain once the baby's out. love you guys that was like you said it. was never. forget it was. during my time in a jar career i've gotten a taste of the tenuous life in the creeks the vast disparity between the region's immense natural wealth and inhabitants access to basic necessities like clean drinking water or modern medical care methods aside the niger delta cause to which the militants have laid claim seem just. but i want to learn more about why some young men choose to enter the ranks of the militants and about the leaders the draw them into the struggle so i made my way to the camp of the notorious to take

a tom cruise niger delta patriotic force as one of the strongest in the region. israel to brag of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel of mine to the limits of the greater the niger delta and all until recently launched the salvage on development company modern day. every day our legs enjoy and the people of the us known to be terrorized in the area that the people had allowed to carry out such as to be killing maiming and he said people. i was. going to tell them. that it would. take a time had been driven into hiding by nigeria's joint task force he retaliated with

an attack on the presidential hotel nevertheless he and his boys are fated to hide out as fugitives and a handful of camps they maintain in the creeks awaiting a resolution to the continent or a deal that would permit them to return. about . this my wife. we had in mind i thought if you don't fight the house so we need development schools i just walked out of. the gomez ubisoft and i bought some. group of local journalists committed to visit to take his camp for a press conference.

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john davis and i got it out of those one and. so on it's. going to has to do. maybe i've already said it's unhelpful if done for trying. i was fights back i was fights. fights and everybody. just did governments i don't want to have problem with me i'll fight. to win and when we win a fight and i'll tell you. how can you help peace if you don't do. this . governments. when you see sincerity in. this instead. you know and i know. the president no i don't like like life as i like like everybody you know what is

involved. is not what's got his you ok ok. for the last. sixty. you should see him do to live. up to the you know there are some records from. where you from. my life did not revise that. well. i will go you. know what i'm going and i didn't go off i want to. so how long have you been here and the kid. went off on. what you've done. with them and eloise day. i don't know two governments called to see.

if you got my divorce will be lost or thought i. did and then if the friends you know if my country congressman i lived first. nothing but i think. i'm going to. come from. no. one from. we are facing a lot of problems in that. because no one thought to drink for no good school. no developments we have been far as. well but. on somebody like. what. is a human rights activist. he.

was for how many many names. of the two. enemies is to an end to. this man if it is my. if you. do not get at the. voice. when i first met jayma it was i did mostly on the outskirts of the camp or at home among the militants and with his true family he believes he found a father and

a tekken where his own father fell short. of. rice and so sweets. i get some of. this is logical. this is all this it is this. issue. with. body. with these evil presidents. what makes me think that historic and that is game. after had not taken off for me to where. i left everything.

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child there was a good one i don't today and i trained him. says i have six children three boys three goes. is a good kid the wise hardworking. incentives do. i want to see him. him i wasn't even here until he died it is his primary school and he went to court to look for his father. and later he left when i saw him last one i was in the hospital and when he came out that was when the market was operated i can move on to what i really want to see. to my operation was the last time i saw him so i would like tina to come back so i will see him.

you know. if you go there and that his mother was working on the farm. and i'm a jew and i want to i thought he was dead. i've gone to port harcourt to look for him i didn't see him i said maybe he's dead. if you went to any other place i don't know. ok i was i don't know that we know there was no alcohol i mean i was. smoking was that was that was how i don't know how that was. valid. value. going going going going to be good how

do you argue that. yet you talk it out he did. good about it but i did my job i got i decided. to check the facts on the mobile world. on the drugs for. women over the gulf strike. not about what. was wrong or. what they mean the time to do it's thing to far it's morning it's afternoon it's in the evening that it's drink for you that is secret for you to smoke so use this event that if you. food is not one of the money's not one of the most we don't. have all the time oh god no i doubt it's god

like i grew up under the law and i don't like it i'm not going to talk about it as i would never know what i was going to have want what i don't know you by the way you know how much everything we don't like then i was. like what that was i was not marriageable with you know not yet somehow you know with your i'll go bang i'm feeling a little bit loud i want you don't worry about that it's awkward i thought i was. don't know what you know well you know good stuff. i don't want to know what i know there's. an idea that i'm that guy and i doubt very much. that i do know we all want. a bit of that was going to do what it. was about you are not the new guy do it that way they're going to find it wow that. was my dad's goddamn i've done enough and i haven't. done the right thing and i have.

not found what. i mean. we know who. we're almost. out of. i mean i don't i don't want to under time you're not welcome in times. i don't know the fall but if i don't i must fight i'm not somebody. i must have a comp went to fight. or not

fire and. next time i know i am i should and i think there's enough and i'm not. going to go. out on a. what fight oh no not on here. i owe on was. was out i was i. that was that i knew that it. was is on the your dirty clothes. i. was. loads up here.

he got he said. yeah. i mean. right. from the life and tries to leave. it on and he come. to. feel. michael. i mean if these god's will is the one thing that. is not divine i would be in the present.

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