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 it 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 there was no surprise to me that a conflict that ignited which militant. sabotage closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers. to leave. 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.

bob as sad. as. you to i bought your new book. and i'm going to tell you through. all out who goes to induce i like i got it off why do. you call me to let you fall stuff yes or like your fault but oh yes or you want my butt out to blah blah yes it comes to my data yes or yeah but i don't and i doubt yes or futurity think you 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. manager 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 forces. on a mission to combat the militants and protect the oil from illegal. but many in the niger delta builders the oil companies and the federal government were robbing the region of oil. we passed by bonny island where multinational oil companies like shell. and agile tap into the thirty six billion barrels of oil beneath our feet. and i find myself in each of the tiny fishing village that is frequently visited by the. militants from a nearby camp. sent

. i think he's deserved it. the government we have been a doing the event not to god not to him. not to know about. and i joke that i didn't know until the. do you think they're no longer here. i beg go out of office were. the stronger voice. why can't they find somewhere else to stay. far away. what are they doing.

it looks like they've carried some people in this big bed that they meant to. but doesn't it. is the cargo 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. a new. are they dragging the other speedboat along so they're using their guns to signal each other. even in the midst of the conflict so ordinary life takes its course and its twenty three year old named mom goes into labor for. so. i'm ok mom a has come. i'm going to miss when you're done eating please check your stomach moment. when she is slow to deliver her father feeds her roots the black pepper

a traditional remedy to help speed the birth. how that is so 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 audio no tell identical love them take it quickly come on. my stomach hurts if you were cheering it you latest initiative already done. all this once and then was gone then this is. all of them does not speak to you buddy did i didn't you. this is the cause is a need to wish it would and knows how to give out he's a long year. old girl discussion space. it's all a mate no complications arise as mom is such

a lover. i was. oh i thought i'd let it live wanted to come out now oh god you can do it do it now do it to zeus the baby emerge with him bill court is wrapped around his neck and he is not preaching of a good son not. one with a. lot of. life. is that enough do you need sun. done too long or too down i do it to first do it to. take take the sound. bring more bring more what's happened. once. the baby has come take him out take him out.

enough way out then i 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 h.r. 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 seemed just. but i wanted to learn more about why some young men choose to enter the ranks of the militants and about the leaders to 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. all mysteries to me lonnie said the salvage on development company modern day. every day are next to enjoin the people was known to be terrorizing the area that the people had allowed to carry out such as to be killing maiming and he said people. on them. that it would. take a time had been driven into hiding by nigeria's truck taskforce 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 continental for a deal that would permit them to return. this my wife. we have in mind i thought if we don't fight the house so we need development schools i just go on a walk you know you do something about some. group of local journalists committed to visit to take this camp for a press conference.

that will. be goes on so. there are some boys with guns telling to cover their faces a. minute i'm not going to nobody tell them to arrange themselves does. not. do that. i will fit. well into the future what makes computers these days so super is the memory for that russian research is have got a few ideas that could make cognitive computing

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the united. felony developments. what is cool or not everett's in good roads just like a bridge on oh yeah that really everybody knew dogs they wanted to use in. i would . want to. see. if. maybe. he's on something you've done for. i was fights back i was fights. fights. everybody. is dead governments i don't want me. to win when we fight and i'll tell you. how can you have peace if you don't. government's. sincerity in.

this instead. you know and i know. the president felt like like live up to the like like everybody you know what is the. guy's issue ok ok. for the last. sixty. you should soon do to live. off 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 to be i mean i didn't go off i want to. say how long you've been here and the kid. i used.

to sit with. and eloise day. i don't know two governments called because. if you go blind you've also been lost so i thought i. am and if. you're for my country congressman i lived first. nothing but i think. i'm going to. come from. well. i'm from. we are facing a lot of problems in the night. because no one thought to drink. no good school. no developments when you visit far.

well but. on somebody like. what. is a human rights activists. is if. that. was for how many many names. some people too. so people know him to know that the. enemies used to call him an enemy to. this man if it is my. own and we if you. is among that they do not get at them. they fell off the invoice.

when i first met jayma they resided 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 tech and where his own father fell short. of. rice and so sweets. i get some of. this is logical. flaw. this is lord in full it is this. issue. does. with these evil brzezinski. cloyd's. make me the destroyer and that is game. after i've not taken

a fall for me to where. i left everything. on official loomis each and then also the dots and i think of it and. i want to know is that it is game it's. nice for me until. i had never eaten flying. from it must its. been called movietone dissolved. in my neighborhood are we into that i. have my hair. tonight yeah i think from from here.

there's someone and it's. it's just that i didn't gave birth to him but he's my 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 gargle. mizen since do. i want to see him. him i wasn't even here until he died it is his primary school and he went to. his father. and later you laughed when i saw him last one i was in the hospital and when he came out that was when the market was operated as i can live with 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. i work on my for. you know. it's good 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. you know i'm going to go back i was violence that we know there was no alcohol and i was. lucky. that i was that was how i got that i was.

valid. id. going going going going to be how do those who aren't. yet to try it out. there too much. i got i decided. to check the facts on the mobile. phone the. women over the fire. you know how well. thank you i wonder. what they mean the time to you it's going to far as it's morning it's afternoon evening that it's going for you daddy sigrid for you to smoke so use this event that you.

food is not the one with the money is not well known this we don't. have all the time oh god that is god like and i grew up under the law and i think that i'm like i'm not going to talk about it as well you know what i've done the lives i want to do what i don't know you by the way not that you did not would not like that i was that like the. good wife when there was i was not marriageable with you know not yet somehow you know what you're saying i'm feeling a little bit loud you know what i'm going off about that it's awkward i thought i was. well you know those are. interested in the bible i don't want to know what i know there's. nobody out there and i did not know that and i doubt very much. that i do not. feel. so good that i've. got to do what it.

was but you are not bloody very good with that i guess by the lab it. was my god damn i've done enough of it i haven't. done throughout your life. oh. well found one. who knew who was good. for almost. an hour. every day i don't i don't want to under time i'll not welcome a dime's. i don't know the fall

but if i don't i must buy an answer but. i must have a comp went to fight. or not. next time i know i am i should i not or not and i'm not. a. very good. mother. oh no no no no. what fight oh no not on here are live doing do i owe our was. out. album last night you know that i would say that i knew that it. was that it was on the other clothes.

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in the prison yes it's. charism a word we hear all the time is terrorism a specific form of criminality practiced under certain circumstances focused on a specific group of people when we consider weapons is there much that separates handmade bombs in high tech drones. ok going to. grow no way things are going the republican. better off with the state of. texas has got its own luck. has got all the hall and gas and everything and. it's got all that and. everything you can survive but the rich united states would you say to. them not. with.

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