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Shell to pay $15.5 million to settle Nigeria claims
Oil company Royal Dutch Shell will pay $15.5 million to settle a lawsuit against its Nigerian subsidiary by the family of executed Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other dissidents, the plaintiffs announced Monday. The lawsuit accuses Shell of complicity in the 1995 hanging of Saro-Wiwa and the killings or persecution of other environmental activists by the military government that ruled the country at the time
Behind Northern Ireland’s Latest Killing Spree
“A good husband has been taken away from me, and my life has been destroyed.