News and Updates

  • Beyond Amnesty: 2009 Citizens Report on State and Local Government Budgets in the Niger Delta
    Report updated 6 weeks 1 day ago.
    This report presents analyses and monitoring reports of the 2009 state and local government budgets of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers States by members, volunteers and associates of the Niger Delta Citizens and Budget Platform (NDCBP).

  • The Niger Delta: Crisis Prevention or Post-conflict Reconstruction?
    Article updated 11 weeks 14 hours ago.
    Events in the last three decades seem to indicate that the international community prefers post-conflict mediation and reconstruction, rather than crisis prevention. This appears to be the case especially by western governments. On the surface at least, instead of investing in crisis prevention,...

  • Niger Delta: The Complexities of the Post-Amnesty Environment (part 1)
    Article updated 12 weeks 6 days ago.
    According to the United Nations, “the collapse of state authority, erosion of basic services, marginalization and exclusion of youth and women and endemic poverty over several decades were significant contributing factors to Sierra Leone's decade of war” which lasted from1991 until 2002.

  • Nigerian Militants Vow to Resume Attacks Next Week
    Article updated 21 weeks 6 days ago.
    Nigerian Militants Vow to Resume Attacks Next Week Filed at 7:22 a.m. ET ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigeria's main militant group vowed to resume attacks after a cease-fire expires next week, while the government said Thursday that more than 8,000 militants had disarmed as part of an amnesty program.

  • Nigeria: Disarmament - Militants Name Soyinka, Akhigbe, Others Mediators
    Article updated 23 weeks 45 min ago.
    Lagos/Abuja — Wole Soyinka was on Tuesday named by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) among those to negotiate with Abuja on disarmament, bringing credibility to the process, as well as hope of a lasting peace in the Deep South. Others in the 'Aaron Team,' as the MEND puts...

  • Statement of Jomo Ghomo of MEND on Aaron Team
    Article updated 23 weeks 1 day ago.
    Statement by Jomo Ghomo on Aaron Team "...I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt." Exodus 3: 9-10 Some eminent Nigerians have graciously accepted to dialogue on behalf of the Movement for the...

  • Nigerian delta militant group names mediation team
    Article updated 23 weeks 1 day ago.
    LAGOS (Reuters) - The main militant group in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta on Tuesday named a team of mediators to negotiate with the government over disarmament but said the amnesty process "lacked integrity". The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) named a team including...

  • Nigeria: No Mercy for Militants After October 4 - Federal Government
    Article updated 23 weeks 1 day ago.
    Lagos/Warri/Asaba — Seven days to the deadline for militants to drop their arms and accept amnesty, Abuja at the weekend warned that none would be treated with mercy after October 4. Defence Minister and Amnesty Panel Chairman, Godwin Abbe, has reportedly foreclosed extending the deadline, as...

  • Sponsors
    Page updated 24 weeks 6 days ago.
    The following is a list of organizations sponsoring Niger Delta Rising. Interested in becoming a sponsor? Contact us!    African Security Research Project

  • Timeline of events
    Page updated 25 weeks 2 hours ago.
    December 1998 More than 5,000 Ijaw Youth gather in the ancient Kaiama Town, Bayelsa state, proclaiming the “Kaiama Declaration” and start peaceful protests against oil corporations for the years of environmental abuse and neglect of the region.

  • U.S. Military Involvement in Nigeria
    Article updated 25 weeks 2 hours ago.
    U.S. Military Involvement in Nigeria

  • History of the U.S. in the Niger Delta
    Page updated 25 weeks 3 hours ago.
     

  • Nigeria braces for push against oil rebels
    Report updated 25 weeks 1 day ago.
    United Press International Nigeria braces for push against oil rebels Published: Sept. 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM As the mid-September deadline for a cease-fire in Nigeria's oil war approaches with no sign of a mass surrender by rebels who have shattered the country's oil production, President Umaru Yar'...

  • U.S. Army Wargames for Future Military Intervention in Nigeria and Somalia
    Article updated 25 weeks 2 days ago.
    In May 2008, the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, hosted “Unified Quest 2008,” the Army’s annual war games to test the American military’s ability to deal with the kind of crises that it might face in the near future. “Unified Quest 2008” was especially noteworthy because it was...

  • Nigerian Government Preparing for Imminent Military Offensive in the Delta
    Article updated 25 weeks 3 days ago.
    There is mounting evidence that the government of Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’adua is set to launch a full-scale offensive in the Niger Delta when a ceasefire declared by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) ends on 15 Sep 2009. And this time, Nigerian military forces...