Port Harcourt Dwellers Face Eviction, November 2011
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Credit: Wendy Bruere/IRINAuthorities in Rivers State, southeast Nigeria, have threatened to demolish informal settlements along the waterfront of Port Harcourt. Read IRIN's report >> -
Credit: Wendy Bruere/IRIN...which houses over 200,000 people... -
Credit: Wendy Bruere/IRIN...including children. Many children also attend community-run schools in the settlements. -
Credit: Wendy Bruere/IRINHome owners will be compensated for their houses, but tenants will be left stranded. -
Credit: Wendy Bruere/IRINMany people living in shanty towns like Olumogbogbo-Ama rely on the water for their livelihoods - fishing, ferrying, collecting mangrove timber... -
Credit: Wendy Bruere/IRIN...and selling rice, which will be threatened if the slums are demolished. -
Credit: Wendy Bruere/IRINWomen sort shellfish taken from the nearby river in Igbikisikala-Ama settlement... -
Credit: Wendy Bruere/IRIN...while young men make bricks out of sand to build houses. -
Credit: Wendy Bruere/IRINMany of the houses in the settlements are built on reclaimed swampland. -
Credit: Wendy Bruere/IRINRivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, says the residents who have built their homes on the waterfronts are "temporary occupants" who can be evicted with only seven days notice.
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