Rebels in Nigeria’s oil pipeline

WHAT/WHERE
Current.com’s Mariana van Zeller travels to one of the most unstable regions in the world – Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta. She investigates what’s behind the growing number of kidnappings and attacks in Africa’s largest oil producer and the US’s fifth largest energy supplier.

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