Nigerian militants claim oil attack, threaten more
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A Nigerian militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has claimed responsibility for a raid on an oil export terminal on Thursday in which four expatriate workers were kidnapped.
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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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The US says it is closely watching the situation in Nigeria, where a rebel militia has threatened to attack oil production facilities and foreign oil workers.
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AFP/Getty Images - The most prominent armed group in southern Nigeria has claimed responsibility for a dynamite attack Monday night on the convoy of a port authority official in Nigeria's oil hub city Port Harcourt.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing region claim responsibility for the kidnapping of four foreign workers.
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PORT HARCOURT (Nigeria) - Nigeria&#39;s army yesterday launched an offensive against a separatist rebel group which threatened oil installations and workers in the southern Delta region, an army spokesman said.
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LAGOS (Reuters via SwissInfo) - Heavily armed gunmen in speedboats kidnapped seven workers, including three foreigners, from an offshore Nigerian oilfield in a major setback to peace in the Niger Delta. The raid on Saturday night was the first big attack on an oil facility in five months since the inauguration of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who had started a peace process to address rebel demands for more regional autonomy in the oil-producing wetlands of southern Nigeria. "Seven people were kidnapped from a supply vessel to the EA field. They are four Nigerians and three expats," said Olav Ljosne, a spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell, which operates the offshore field. He confirmed that the three foreigners were a Briton, a Croat and a Russian.  All other workers have been evacuated from the facility, which has not produced any oil since an earlier militant attack in February 2006. It had been expected to resume production by the middle of next year.
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Gunmen attacked an oil rig Wednesday in Nigeria's restive southern oil heartland and seized five expatriate workers, officials said.
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Armed men kidnapped four more foreign oil workers in Nigeria's southern oil city of Port Harcourt but released three Filipinos abducted more than 10 days ago in the latest of a series of incidents in volatile Niger Delta.
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The United States warned yesterday that Nigerian militants may be planning to expand their activities beyond the country's restive oil-producing southern regions. Light, sweet crude prices rose more than $1, to settle above $59 a barrel, in part because of worries over the warning. The warning by the United States, which receives more than 10 percent of ...
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A fresh attack on oil facilities in Nigeria and possible strike action by workers there sends oil prices above $70 a barrel.
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U.S. and other Western interests in Nigeria are at risk of "terrorist attack", the United States embassy in Africa's top oil producer said on Thursday.
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Angola extradited to Nigeria a man accused of leading a militant group that attacked foreign workers and installations in Africa's largest oil nation, an official said Friday.
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Nigerian gunmen attacked an  Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta early on Thursday  and kidnapped three expatriate workers, the commander of the  armed forces in the region told Reuters.
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INSURGENTS in Nigeriaâs oil-rich Niger river delta yesterday warned that they would launch &quot;a full-scale armed struggle&quot; against the central government on Friday, the 44th anniversary of independence from Britain.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - About 20 Nigerians working for a contractor to Royal Dutch Shell were abducted during a Monday attack on a convoy of boats supplying oilfields, Shell sources said on Tuesday.
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Troop reinforcements and gunboats are sent to a Nigerian oil platform occupied by militants since Sunday.