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The landscape of banana trees and a pineapple farm where some Ogoni live looks bleak, stained with oil, in air filled with dark smoke.
At least 11 people were trampled to death on Saturday in a stampede at an election campaign rally for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.
Officials from oil and construction firms gathered at an air force base in Port Harcourt on Thursday for the handover of 19 hostages.
Security forces have deployed in the Niger Delta to disperse former militants protesting over the non-payment of amnesty allowances.
Nigeria’s plan to give Niger Delta residents a slice of its energy company could be a major deterrent to militancy, the governor of Rivers state said.
Key rebel leaders in the Niger Delta have urged the government to push back its October 4 amnesty deadline by three months to allow for peace talks.
Hundreds of Nigerian militants on Saturday surrendered their weapons, mortar bombs and gunboats as part of a federal amnesty programme.
Nigerian militants attacked a gas plant operated by Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta on Saturday and warned of more attacks to come.
Nigerian militants clashed with each other in the Niger Delta, a military spokesperson said on Friday, highlighting a complex security situation.
Nigerian militants threatened on Wednesday to broaden their ”oil war” to offshore oilfields.
Nigerian militants launched assaults on two oil installations in the Niger Delta in the heaviest fighting there in two years, sources said on Tuesday.
Nigerian militants on Monday attacked a Shell-operated oil installation, forcing the evacuation of nearly 100 people.
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.
