For years, efforts to clean up contaminated communities in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta have been bogged down in dispute and bureaucracy.
In 2011, the United Nations Environment Programme proposed the creation of a $1bn fund to repair the damage done by decades of oil spills in the Ogoniland area.
But activists say they are not impressed with the pace of work.
Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris reports from Ogoni, in the Niger Delta.
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In 2011, the United Nations Environment Programme proposed the creation of a $1bn fund to repair the damage done by decades of oil spills in the Ogoniland area.
But activists say they are not impressed with the pace of work.
Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris reports from Ogoni, in the Niger Delta.
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