News at Eleven: 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, said it agreed to settle the lawsuit in hopes of aiding the "process of reconciliation." But Europe's largest oil company acknowledged no wrongdoing in the 1995 hanging deaths of six people, including poet Saro-Wiwa.

from The Associated Press: Shell settles human rights suit for $15.5M
also VOA News: Relatives of Slain Nigerian Activists Hail Shell Settlement

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