Militants to free hostages in Nigerian oil delta
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian militants said they planned to release 11 foreign hostages in the oil producing Niger Delta on Monday and state authorities said they were on their way to collect them.
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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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Two Filipino oil workers were kidnapped near the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt in the southern Niger Delta, officials said.
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The most prominent armed group in Nigeria's restive, oil-rich Niger Delta vowed Sunday to end hostilities if its leader detained for alleged arms trafficking in Angola is released.
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An armed group fighting for control of oil resources in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria has released 12 foreign workers it had been holding hostage, police said Tuesday.
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Nigerian militants kidnap seven foreign oil workers from a ship off the coast, Italian oil firm Eni says.
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A group of 24 Filipino seamen held hostage in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region are freed after weeks in captivity.
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Hostage takers released three European captives Monday in Nigeria's restive oil region, officials said.
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Twenty-four Filipino hostages shuddered as dozens of armed Nigerian militants danced around them. The hostages are being held as part of a wider rebel campaign over Nigeria's distribution of oil wealth. In an exclusive report, the hostages tell CNN's Jeff Koinange they are OK. The rebel leader says this is just the beginning of their battle.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian militants freed 12 foreign hostages in the oil producing Niger Delta on Monday as a prelude to peace talks with the incoming government of President Umaru Yar'Adua.
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At least seven foreign oil workers were  kidnapped in a militant attack on an oil industry compound in  Nigeria's southern oil-producing delta on Tuesday, oil industry  sources said.
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Nigerian kidnappers have released six Indian and Polish hostages seized on October 26 from an offshore oil production facility operated by Saipem, the Italian firm's parent company Eni said on Tuesday.
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A militant group in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta said Thursday that a Lebanese hostage it reportedly freed had in fact escaped, and threatened retaliation against the Italian oil firm he worked for.
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The drama of foreign oil workers kidnapped for ransom in restive southern Nigeria plays out so often that it seems the hostage takers, the oil giants and the army follow a script &#151; one that usually ends peacefully with the captives released unharmed.
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A Nigerian 3-year-old boy has been released by his kidnappers one day after he was snatched on his way to school in the Niger Delta, the boy's father said on Friday.
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Militant group MEND is preparing attacks  on Nigerian oil facilities that could be preceded by  hostage-taking, the U.S. embassy said in a security notice on  Friday.
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All Royal Dutch Shell contractors  kidnapped in Nigeria this week have been freed by their  captors, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday.