SHELL SETTLES

"A compassionate payment." That's what Royal Dutch Shell called the $15.5 million it agreed to pay to settle a case brought in a New York court over the hanging of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa in Nigeria in 1995. A critic of Shell's environmental policy in the Niger Delta, Saro-Wiwa was executed along with eight others by ...

Victims of murder, torture and other abuses by Nigeria's former military government hailed Tuesday a landmark out-of-court settlement with Royal Dutch Shell over its alleged complicity in the crimes. Shell agreed Monday in New York to pay out 15.5 million dollars (10.7 million euros) to relatives of Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and others executed in ...

Royal Dutch Shell agreed to a $15.5 million settlement Monday to end a lawsuit alleging that the oil giant was complicit in the executions of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other civilians by Nigeria's former military regime. Shell, which continues to operate in Nigeria ...

Royal Dutch Shell is preparing for a federal trial this summer where it would face allegations that it played a role in the executions of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other civilians by Nigeria's former military regime. It is just the latest in a series of trials seeking to ...