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 BUGUMA, Nigeria (AP) - The capital of the ancient Kalabari kingdom is vivid testimony to the downside of Africa's oil.
A gutted local government building stands by the central square, near a smashed statue of the town's founding king. Soldiers patrol the streets.
These are scars from a three-month occupation last year by a private militia accused of rapes and random killings, and dozens of villages in the oil-rich Niger River delta have suffered similar violence.
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