Darfur Rebels Kidnap Oil Workers
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Rebels from Darfur have attacked an oil field in a neighboring Sudanese region, abducted foreign workers, and given a one-week ultimatum for foreign oil companies to cease operating in the zone
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped seven oil workers including one Italian in a raid on an oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, authorities said.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, Oct. 25 -- Darfur rebels launched a brazen attack on Sudan's oil fields days before peace talks are scheduled to begin with the government, kidnapping two foreign workers and giving Chinese and other oil companies a week to leave the country, a commander said Thursday.
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Five oil workers have been kidnapped in southern Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region, officials say.
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Nigerian militants have kidnapped a Croatian worker on the troubled waterways of the Niger Delta, officials and the oil giant Shell said, amid rising tensions in Africa's biggest oil producing region.
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U.N. workers searched by land and air Tuesday for eight Sudanese aid workers missing in rebel-controlled territory in the western Darfur region, officials said Tuesday.
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Gunmen have kidnapped several foreigners in the main oil-producing region of southern Nigeria, military and industry sources said Friday.
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage, security and industry sources said on Friday.
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Gunmen in speedboats kidnapped seven workers including three foreigners from an offshore Nigerian oilfield in a major setback to peace in the Niger Delta.
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Darfur rebels in Sudan said they had taken a town Wednesday around Geneina, the main city of west Darfur which they claim to have surrounded.
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Rebels released six Sudanese aid workers early Wednesday in Darfur, four days after they went missing during a trip to register refugees fleeing a brutal campaign of killings in the war-ravaged region, a U.N. official said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped several workers including a number of foreigners in a raid on an Italian oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, industry and security sources said.
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Sudan said Monday that rebels  kidnapped eight U.N. and Red Crescent workers in the country's  western Darfur area, where aid agencies are struggling to feed  and house one million villagers displaced by fighting.
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Rebels have attacked a South Darfur oil pumping station, the police chief said Monday, and an African Union official said shots fired at an AU helicopter had hurt efforts to monitor military activity in the region.
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Sudan said Monday rebels had kidnapped  eight U.N. and Red Crescent workers in the country's western  Darfur area, where aid agencies are struggling to feed and  house one million villagers displaced by fighting.
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The Sudanese government released seven Darfur rebel delegates Thursday it had arrested despite their U.N. and African Union protection, the United Nations mission to Darfur said.
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Gunmen attacked two oil installations in southern Nigeria, kidnapping two senior Nigerian employees of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and two foreigners, security officials and colleagues said Monday.