Nigeria: MEND Declares Indefinite Ceasefire

26 October 2009

Lasting respite seems to have returned to the restive Niger Delta as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has finally declared an "indefinite ceasefire" following President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's meeting with one of its former leaders, Mr. Henry Okah.

MEND, in an email yesterday by its Spokesman, Jomo Gbomo, where it declared an indefinite ceasefire, also announced the replacement of Ms. Annkio Briggs with Mr. Amagbe Denzel Kentebe as the group's liaison officer.

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