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The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s main militant group said it planned to launch a series of attacks on oil infrastructure in the Niger River delta in “the coming days.”

Now estimated to be spewing up to 60,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf every day, the Deepwater Horizon spill is huge, but still relatively moderate compared to the leakage that has contaminated places like the Niger Delta and Ecuador's Amazon.

1. Do not forget that Africa is not one country – there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach