Nigeria military orders halt to delta patrols
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The Nigerian military on Friday ordered a halt to patrols around the Niger Delta to underscore the government&#39;s commitment to a truce agreed with militants, a senior oil industry source said.
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The Anglo-Dutch Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has announced to shut down a flow station and withdraw 244 non-core workers from oil fields in the Niger Delta as battles
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Iraq&#39;s northern oil exports were halted Wednesday following a series of massive attacks on Iraq&#39;s pipeline network linking northern oil fields in Kirkuk to Turkey.
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Nigerian rebels fighting for sovereignty of the oil-producing Niger delta told oil companies in the world&#39;s seventh largest exporter to shut production before they begin an &quot;all-out war&quot; on Oct. 1.
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Community unrest in the Niger Delta has forced oil giants Shell and ChevronTexaco to suspend exports totalling 134,000 barrels of oil per day from Nigeria, company spokesmen said.
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U.N. peacekeepers monitoring the  disputed border between Ethiopia and Eritrea may have to halt  operations within weeks because Eritrea has cut diesel fuel  supplies, said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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Nigerian unions on Monday suspended a general strike due to start on Tuesday after the government agreed to reduce domestic fuel prices, a union leader said.
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Authorities have halted oil export flows from the main pipeline in southern Iraq after intelligence showed a rebel militia could strike infrastructure, an oil official said on Saturday.
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A nationwide strike to protest fuel price hikes shut down Nigeria's commercial capital on Monday, emptying the streets of most traffic except soldiers and anti-riot police in armored vehicles.
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The Khartoum government on Wednesday approved to halt its military operations in Darfur to the west of Sudan. This was in a step that will push both the two main rebel movements in the region to give up their
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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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Turkish construction company Vinsan said last night that it was halting operations in Iraq in a bid to save the lives of 10 employees kidnapped by militants.
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Crude oil futures fell after a cease- fire held in Nigeria, lessening concerns that rebel fighting may disrupt US imports from Africa&#39;s biggest oil-producing state.
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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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The Nigerian government has signed a cease-fire with three rebel groups that had been targeting foreign oil companies and their workers in the Niger Delta region, government officials said Friday.
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A Turkish construction company announced Tuesday that it was halting operations in neighboring Iraq in a bid to save the lives of 10 employees kidnapped by militants.
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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.