UK court backs Shell in Nigeria oil spill
Britain's highest court recently ruled it was too late for people in Nigeria's Niger Delta region to lodge pollution claims against energy giant Shell after a huge oil spill more than one decade ago.
On December 20, 2011, an estimated 40,000 barrels of crude oil leaked when a tanker was loaded at Shells Bonga oilfield, 120 kilometers off the coast of the Niger Delta.
More than 13,500 residents from the Ogale and Bille communities in the Niger Delta had filed claims against Shell asking that the company clean up oil spills, which they say have wrecked their livelihoods, poisoned their wells, and polluted their land and water, which means they can no longer farm or fish.
Sudan was the largest African country before it was divided into south and north in 2011.
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