Smoke, soot and toxic fumes: Nigerian families living in shadow of burning oil well six years after blowout

P erched on a narrow hospital cot across from her son, Bodunwa Orugbemi can hear the distant Atlantic Ocean and smell the stench of crude oil on the air drifting in from the shore. For days, her 21-year-old son has been lying in this hospital in the Niger Delta, swallowing small spoonfuls of food wi...

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