Editor’s Note: This is part of a short series examining maritime geography and strategic challenges in specific bodies of water, ranging from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Guinea and the South China ...

Sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean, the Niger-Delta is located within nine coastal southern states, which include all six states (Edo, Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa, Cross River ...

are within the Gulf of Guinea, making the region critical to the development of Nigeria’s Blue Economy. “The Niger Delta must be clearly captured in a more active and determined way as a ...

(Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images) A U.N. resolution last week condemned piracy in the Gulf of Guinea — the ... especially in and around the Niger Delta, appeared to spill out onto the water ...

An international research team has used earth observation radar data to map oil pipeline networks covering a 9000 km2 region in the Niger Delta and pinpoint where crude oil spills have caused the ...

Also evident is that most of Nigeria’s maritime domain and international coastline outside of Lagos, all of which are within the Gulf of Guinea, are in the coast of Niger Delta and this region ...

advanced into Niger and Burkina Faso three years later and now overshadows fragile states on the Gulf of Guinea. An unknown number of civilians, troops and police have been killed across the ...

The Bonga oil spill occurred on 20 December 2011, during Shell’s exploration activities in OML 118, located 120 kilometres off Nigeria’s coast in the Gulf of Guinea. The rupture of Shell’s ...

“All the Gulf of Guinea countries are very worried,” said Pauline Bax, deputy director of the Africa program at the International Crisis Group. Amid the furor over the coup in Niger, and the ...

A University Don, Professor Abdulrazaq Owolabi Abdulkadir, of the University of Ilorin, has identified the major cause of resentment in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. He also noted the negative ...

Emotions ran high as the Western Zone of the Movement for the Survival of the Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND) marked the 57th Boro Day Celebration in solemn reflection of the ...