For Africa's poor, oil has been no gift

LAGOS: Nigeria and Angola are Africa's top two oil producers, yet most of their people live in wretched poverty, often in shanties dwarfed by fire-belching derricks.

Corruption has long kept oil revenues from making life better for ordinary people in the two countries, and the growing anger, which swells the ranks of militant groups, creates instability that threatens the world's fuel supply. This week it is drawing the attention of US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she travels across the continent.

World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick will also visit Africa this week, a three-nation tour to encourage investor and donor support to help the worlds poorest continent cope with the global economic crisis.