Nigerian oil rebels threaten attacks after arrest
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A powerful Nigerian armed group threatened in an e-mail to the media on Sunday to resume attacks on oil facilities and kidnapping of foreigners, ending a four-month ceasefire.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen attacked an oil drilling rig and kidnapped five expatriates in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria early on Wednesday, dealing a blow to a fledgling peace process in Africa's oil heartland.
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Nigeria's main militant group said Thursday it fired on six oil industry ships and threatened an attack that will cause an "economic tsunami" in the world's oil market.
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Foreign oil workers in Nigeria were given three days notice to leave Tuesday by rebels who threaten &quot;all-out war&quot; against the government, the BBC reported.
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The threat of violence in petroleum-rich Nigeria this week, followed by a spike in oil prices, underscored yet again that country&#39;s importance and danger to companies that work there.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing region claim responsibility for the kidnapping of four foreign workers.
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At least seven oil workers are reportedly seized by gunmen as they lay pipelines off Nigeria's southern coast.
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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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The leader of a militia based in Nigeria's main oil region says he is to meet the president following his threat to attack foreign oil workers.
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A rebel fighting for autonomy in  Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta said he would meet  President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday to discuss terms to  end violence that helped push crude prices to record highs.
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The group, which launched a wave of kidnappings and attacks on oil pipelines earlier this year to press for the release of two of the oil-rich delta region's jailed leaders
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ABUJA, Sept 30  - A rebel leader in Nigeria&#39;s oil-rich south was set to resume talks with President Olusegun Obasanjo&#39;s government ahead of October 1 deadline set by the insurgents for oil multinationals and foreigners to pull out of Niger Delta, hub
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Nigeria's army launched an offensive against a separatist rebel group which has threatened oil installations and workers in the southern Delta region, an army spokesman said.
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The factional leader in a powerful  Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being  detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told  Reuters on Saturday.
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Rebel fighters in Nigeria&#39;s oil-producing Niger delta will attack oil wells and pipelines if the army does not halt assaults on their forces, a rebel commander says.
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Heavyily armed rebels seized a Briton, a Croat, a Russian and four Nigerians from an oil rig run after a three-hour gunbattle Sunday off southern Nigeria, industry and security sources said.
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Nigerian rebel leader Mujahid Dokubo Asari assured his arch rival in the battle for the control of oil resources in the Niger Delta, Ateke Tom that he was ready to make peace.