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Niger Delta

Nigeria 2007

By Carol Hills

June 10, 2009

Nigerians are about to elect their next leader. Whoever wins will face a crisis-in-progress. Kidnappings and armed attacks have brought chaos to the Niger Delta, home of Nigeria's oil wealth. The World's Carol Hills reports.

Listen to Hills' report for BBC/PRI's "The World."

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