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UK ordered to pay £420m by Nigerian court over 1949 mining killings

A Nigerian court has ordered the UK government to compensate the families of 21 coal miners killed by colonial authorities in 1949, ruling that the deaths were an unlawful violation of the right to life. The killings, which occurred during a protest over working conditions at the Iva Valley coal mine, are widely seen as a turning point in Nigeria’s anti-colonial struggle.

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