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Nigeria: Jonathan Urged to Address Niger Delta Militants
Vanguard, 12 February 2010
Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, has been urged to take immediate steps to ensure that the peace deal the Federal Government entered into with militants in the troubled Niger… Read more »
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Nigeria: Militias Threaten Fresh Violence Over Yar'Adua
Vanguard, 4 February 2010
ANGERED by the continued absence of President Umaru Yar'Adua and his refusal to transfer power to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, about 50 militant groups under the aegis of… Read more »
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Nigeria: Niger-Delta - President's Absence Strains Uneasy Peace
IPS, 1 February 2010
Three flow stations in the oil-rich Niger Delta have had to be closed after a pipeline was sabotaged, according to Royal Dutch Shell. Read more »
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Nigeria: Attacks - PFN Tells MEND to Wait for Yar'Adua
This Day, 1 February 2010
As the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has threatened to call off its three-month ceasefire, the President of the Cross River State chapter of the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Shell Cuts Output Over Attack in Niger Delta
Independent (Lagos), 1 February 2010
SHELL announced on Monday that it has shut in some oil production in Niger Delta after a key supply pipeline was sabotaged. Read more »
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Nigeria: Ex-Militants Pick Okah As General Leader
Vanguard, 30 January 2010
A Group of Repentant Ex-militants led by a former "general", John Togo, yesterday, said the leadership tussle that almost tore the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta… Read more »
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Nigeria: MEND Declares Fresh War
Leadership, 30 January 2010
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) says it has ended the ceasefire it declared on Sunday, October 25, 2009, to allow the federal government to implement… Read more »