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/ 16 September 2008
Nigerian militants launched assaults on two oil installations in the Niger Delta in the heaviest fighting there in two years, sources said on Tuesday.
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/ 15 September 2008
Nigerian militants on Monday attacked a Shell-operated oil installation, forcing the evacuation of nearly 100 people.
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/ 15 September 2008
Militants attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil flow station on Monday in a third day of heavy fighting with security forces in the Niger Delta region.
Nigeria’s most prominent militant group on Monday accused the military of killing 12 civilians, but the army said nobody was hurt in such an incident.
Rival militant factions in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta have clashed in an apparent turf war, killing at least four people.
Five Russian oil workers kidnapped from their vessel off Nigeria’s Niger Delta last week have been released unharmed.
Nigerian security forces have clashed with militants believed to be responsible for an attack on Royal Dutch Shell’s main offshore Bonga oilfield.
A powerful militia leader from Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta has accused the government of talking peace while provoking rebel commanders with army raids. Ateke Tom’s armed group is one of several in the anarchic delta that have fought with troops and attacked government targets.
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/ 10 December 2007
A protest outside an oil company compound, a high-profile kidnapping and a troop incursion into a militant stronghold on Monday were all signs of the renewed tension in Nigeria’s oil delta. Violence had subsided for a few months in the impoverished Niger Delta as rebel groups held talks with the government about their demands.
Many residents were too afraid to leave their homes in Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s main oil, on Friday and troops patrolled the streets after dozens were killed in gun battles. Up to 40 people died in street fighting between troops and heavily armed gangsters on Thursday, local newspapers reported, and the gunmen are widely expected to return.