Sentences with phrase «delta region»

«For about two years now... there has been a level of peace enjoyed by us here in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

For a week, most parents of students in the 1,750 - student Lee County district in the Mississippi Delta region of Marianna kept their children home.

There has in recent years been a surge in efforts to tackle militancy in the Niger Delta region in Southern Nigeria.

The 800 kV Dianxibei - Guangdong ultra-high-voltage direct current transmission link is being developed by one of China's two largest grid operators, China Southern Power Grid Company Limited, and upon completion will facilitate the transmission of 5 GW of hydro electricity from the Yunnan province in the southwest of the country to what is one of the most densely urbanized regions in the world, the Pearl River Delta region in Guangdong, in the country's southeast.

Otobong Nkanga includes Delta Stories (2005/06) which is a series of 18 drawings, narrating ecological, political and social transformation in the oil rich Delta region in Nigeria.

For example, the Regional Artemisinin - Resistance Initiative is working to halt the spread of resistant malaria in the Mekong Delta region by monitoring and sharing drug - resistance data and promoting proper use of antimalarial treatments.

They only destroy those who could not afford their bidding and further lobby to come to the Niger Delta region because of what they are gaining from the area.

Researchers chose to study the Yangtze delta region in southeast China, the center of the satellite rainfall retrieval anomaly and also the area where the aerosol optical depth distribution in China is maximal.

If the rising ocean levels caused by global warming force us to build dikes and relocate people away from delta regions, that, too will add to what we measure as Gross Domestic Product.

A group known as Concerned Militant Leaders, CML, from the Niger Delta region yesterday gave Fulani herdsmen two weeks to vacate the South - East and the South - South...

He cited the Oil Delta region in Nigeria, South Sudan as some of the most impoverished areas in Nigeria and Sudan despite being rich in oil wealth.

«One thing you guys may not be aware of is that you have not only succeeded in militarizing the Niger Delta region now, but also succeeded in given birth to so many negotiators and political jobbers within the government circle, who are very serious rumour peddlers in the country now.»

The bulk of California's water passes through the Bay Delta region roughly between San Francisco and Sacramento.

Scientists in Bangladesh have been reappraising forecasts of eventual inundation of sprawling, crowded delta regions as seas rise in a warming world.

Akande was reacting to a media report that claimed that ahead of Tuesday's visit by Osinbajo to Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South - West Local Government Area of Delta State, tension on Sunday enveloped the Niger Delta region over alleged arrest and invasion of some ex-militant leaders» homes by soldiers.

The Vice-President, who spoke on Tuesday at the second National Council on Niger Delta in Akure, the Ondo State capital, said the Federal Government would be ready to partner all stakeholders to ensure that the Niger Delta region develops.

The separatist group which has claimed responsibility for several attacks on pipeline installations in the Niger - Delta region on its twitter handle @NDAvengers said the pipeline was located at Oruk Anam Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.

-- don't be stupid, Hebrew is a Canaanite language and was dominantly spoken in Egypt in those 5 cities of the eastern delta region during the Ptolemaic era.

A report on a scoping study conducted in Magway, Dry Zone and Ayeyarwady Delta region of Myanmar to determine the needs of smallholder farmers and traders relating to vegetable production, postharvest handling and consumption.

We will make federal government and oil companies to suffer as they have made the people of Niger Delta region suffers over the years from environmental degradation, and environmental pollution.

«The so called military operations code named «OPERATION PULO SHIELD» in the Niger Delta region who our partners in the oil bunkering activities, because presently without been told the former JTF Commander, Major - General Emmanuel Atewe who was arrested by the EFCC last week over pipelines surveillance contract amounts to N8.2 billion in the region, is an eye opener to the federal government that the military are fully involved in illegal bunkering in the area.

The decision is coming in reaction to the renewed activities of militants in the Niger Delta region which have led to the destruction of oil facilities thus crippling crude oil production and power supply.

Kachikwu said the Federal Government was working to bring development to the Niger Delta region through the Modular Refineries Initiative, Gas Flare Commercialisation programme and collaboration with oil - producing states, on the Amnesty programme.

The Nigerian Navy said on Wednesday that its anti-crude oil theft operation in the Niger Delta region moved recorded success with the arrest of 2 suspects by a patrol team deployed by NNS Delta.

The people of Niger Delta region support this call and urge that the Federal Government should regard this matter expeditiously.»

The coalition said, «As a follow - up on our previous press release, a joint meeting between the Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators and youth leaders across the Niger Delta region held today (Thursday) in Port Harcourt to review the state of the Nigerian nation and the position of Niger Delta in the Nigerian state.

There have also been accusations aid was being diverted towards the army and away from the hundreds of thousands of people in dire need of relief in the devastated Irrawaddy Delta region.

Likewise, some animal species such as the endemic African Monkey (Guenon species), one of the world's most beautiful monkeys found mostly in the West African rain forest region (the Niger Delta Region inclusive), are at the risk of extinction.

In their own presentation, the leaders and Stakeholders of the Niger Delta Region led by Chief Edwin Clark, a former minister, put across to the President 16 issues for dialogue, for which they demanded a composite government committee.

«For the avoidance of doubt, the DHQ warns these criminal elements to desist from these unwholesome acts of economic sabotage in the Niger Delta region for the overall benefits of the country.

This, he said, implies that no country can thrive economically in an environment of insecurity as was demonstrated by the Boko Haram insurgency and militancy in the Niger Delta region adding that Boko Haram insurgency has decimated the economy of the North East, impoverished the region, and escalated the levels of insecurity, poverty and disease in the region.

Osinbajo also said that militants in the oil - producing Niger Delta region no longer posed a significant threat to oil production.

No fewer than 23 militants were killed while 38 militant camps and 91 illegal refineries as well as bunkering sites were destroyed in the just concluded military exercise in the Niger Delta Region tagged «Crocodile Smile.»

According to him, «It is now clear that the Niger Delta region needs a new vision and a new spirit by all stakeholders.

The work brought them to the dry grassland of Botswana's Okavango Delta region, where researchers camped out in tents.

Population growth, urbanization, and rising sea levels are placing populations living in delta regions under increased risk.

Photojournalist Samuel James's photographs from the Niger Delta region bring to light the hidden and perilous world of illegal oil trading.

Bangladesh is about to upgrade 600 kilometres of coastal embankments in the Sundarbans delta region in its south - west.

Asia produces 89 % of the world's farmed fish and shrimp, much of it in river - delta regions freshened with groundwater, says Higgins.

Some arid regions will turn into deserts and rising seas will inundate fertile but low lying delta regions that are home to tens of millions of peasant farmers in countries such as Bangladesh and Egypt.

This part — the rural Delta region — is a one that still hasn't reached the top level of economic success.

Mr. Loring was a 2010 Teach for America corps member and a founding corps member for TFA's Louisiana Delta region.

KIPP Delta Collegiate High School (DCHS), was founded in 2006 and is one of two high schools within the KIPP Delta region.

Today, the alumni who have stayed number 160 out of the 2,000 young teachers who have cycled through the Mississippi Delta region since TFA began sending teachers to schools there in 1993.

The resort is built in the style of an ancient palace and reminiscent of the houses once found in the Vietnamese northern delta region.