Nigeria militia warns foreigners despite ceasefire
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afrol News, 30 September - A truce was yesterday reached between the Niger Delta militia and the federal government of Nigeria after talks between the militia leader and President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Oil prices held above $49 on Friday as a rebel warlord threatening an offensive in Nigeria&#39;s oil-producing delta region said the government had violated the terms of a two-day truce.
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Extremists in Somalia threatened to carry out suicide attacks against African Union peacekeepers who are to begin deploying in the coming days, and the capital's international airport came under mortar fire Thursday.
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The leader of a militia group from the southern oil-rich region of Nigeria says talks between government officials and rebels continued in Abuja late into the evening on Thursday.
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Troops stepped up security across the Somali capital Saturday after Islamists threatened to disrupt a peace conference, saying anyone who takes part "is sentenced to death."
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A rebel warlord accused the Nigerian  government of violating a cease-fire and threatened to blow up  a gas plant on Friday, reviving a threat to Nigerian oil  operations which has driven crude prices to a record high.
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The United States warned Friday that Nigerian militants may be planning to expand their activities beyond the country's restive oil-producing southern regions.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- The leader of militia fighters threatening to widen a battle for control of Nigeria's oil-rich south said yesterday he agreed to a tentative deal with President Olusegun Obasanjo to end fighting in Africa's leading petroleum exporter that has riled global oil markets.
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Militiamen trying to wrest control of the oil-rich Niger Delta threatened on Tuesday to launch a "full-scale armed struggle" on petroleum-pumping operations in Africa's largest crude oil producing nation, urging foreign oil workers to leave the region.
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Nigerian rebel warlord Mujahid Dokubo-Asari said on Wednesday he had agreed a temporary ceasefire to allow talks with the government, but he repeated his warning to foreign oil workers to leave the Niger Delta.
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Armed men kidnapped five foreigners in oil-rich southern Nigeria early Wednesday, the same day the country&#39;s most prominent militant group announced it would end a truce with the government.
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Rival Nigerian politicians are arming militias in advance of April elections, in hopes of rigging the outcome and gaining control of millions in oil revenue at stake.
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An ethnic militia group in Nigeria&#39;s southeastern oil region vowed on Tuesday to attack oil workers there unless their companies shut down operations within three days.
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In what may be a glimpse of things to come, some U.S.-backed local militias are starting to shoot at each other
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Anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered his Mehdi Army militia to maintain its six-month ceasefire, Sadr's spokesman said on Thursday, while his militiamen clashed with Iraqi and U.S. soldiers.
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A tentative truce between rebels and government troops in Nigeria&#39;s oil-rich south appeared to be holding Thursday as the two sides held a second round of talks in the capital, officials said.
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The Nigerian government has confirmed reports that rebel groups in the country&#39;s main oil producing region have agreed to a ceasefire.