The press release says the New York-based Africa Fund today released a letter to Nigerian President-elect Olusegun Obasanjo pledging support for the restoration of democracy after 15 years of military rule and urging him to reach out to Nigeria's pro-democracy and human rights movements; the letter follows a meeting between General Obasanjo and The Africa Fund in New York on March 29 that focused on Nigeria's transition from dictatorship to elected civilian government and on the role of both U.S. governmental and non-governmental organizations in supporting democratization and respect for human rights. The press mentions Sani Abacha, Jennifer Davis, Michael Fleshman, Delta oil fields, oil...
The press release says the New York-based Africa Fund today released a letter to Nigerian President-elect Olusegun Obasanjo pledging support for the restoration of democracy after 15 years of military rule and urging him to reach out to Nigeria's pro-democracy and human rights movements; the letter follows a meeting between General Obasanjo and The Africa Fund in New York on March 29 that focused on Nigeria's transition from dictatorship to elected civilian government and on the role of both U.S. governmental and non-governmental organizations in supporting democratization and respect for human rights. The press mentions Sani Abacha, Jennifer Davis, Michael Fleshman, Delta oil fields, oil companies, Shell, Mobil, Chevron, Chief Anthony Enahoro, Wole Soyinka, troops deployed in Bayelsa and Rivers states, the Mobile Police, Operation Clean Sweep, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni Peoples (MOSOP), the Ijaw National Congress, Benjamin Gilman, religious leaders, Rev. Joan Campbell, Rabbi David Saperstein, trade unionists, John Sweeney, Stephen Yokich, William Lucy, and national renovation and reconciliation.
