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"Multinational oil companies were ordered by Nigeria's highest court this week to stop engaging in a decades-old process that indigenous and environmental rights groups say has been poisoning the oil-rich area where Africa's Niger River meets the Atlantic Ocean. The waste contains a mix of toxins that pose serious health risks to the human population. A vast majority of the Delta's residents are increasingly facing child respiratory diseases, asthma, cancer, and premature deaths as a result of massive flaring, researchers say."
