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Article: ETHNIC CLASH ROILS NIGERIA TRIBAL FIGHTING IN OIL-RICH COUNTRY COULD THREATEN WORLD SUPPLIES.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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Byline: P-I NEWS SERVICES
OGBE-IJOH, Nigeria -- Exhausted, hungry villagers - who were fleeing days of fighting in the oil-rich Niger Delta - told yesterday of Nigerian soldiers and ethnic militants firing indiscriminately, leaving scores dead.
Meanwhile, officials signaled that the ethnic conflict could also threaten world oil supplies as the fighting has begun to limit oil shipments from the country, the fifth-largest exporter of oil to the United States in 2002, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Royal Dutch-Shell, the largest oil producer in Nigeria, invoked force majeure yesterday afternoon, effectively warning customers ...