Saturday, January 06, 2007

Port Harcourt's New Year Gift of Horror

Several fires in shanty neighborhoods of Port Harcourt, Nigeria left thousands homeless on New Year's Day. The Vanguard (via allAfrica.com) has the sad details.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Robert, I want to get in contact with you for a news story I'm involved with on the rise of squatters. Please could you contact me on pete.bowles@gmail.com - thanks,
Peter

Anonymous said...

inamongst all this tragedy some good news from south africa - an eviction successfully resisted. check out:

http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2006/12/11814.php