Nigerian court frees oil militant
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Oil militant leader Mujahid Dokubo-Asari is freed on bail after almost two years in custody on treason charges.
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Militants freed around 25 kidnapped  Nigerian oil workers on Wednesday but five abducted expatriates  were still missing in another part of the Niger Delta after an  unprecedented attack on a residential compound.
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Militants in Nigeria reportedly free 10 Indians more than two weeks after their abduction near Port Harcourt.
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An Algerian held without being charged since 2001 under British anti-terror laws brought in after the September 11 attacks was finally freed, his lawyer told reporters.
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A militant group said Thursday it had released a Canadian hostage, claiming that her company had met its demand to withdraw from Iraq.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing region claim responsibility for the kidnapping of four foreign workers.
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The government says it will free an Algerian terror suspect held for more than two and half years under tough laws brought in following the September 11 attacks, after saying it can no longer justify holding the man.
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Nigerian militants freed 12  foreign hostages and one Nigerian in the oil-producing Niger  Delta on Monday as a prelude to peace talks with the incoming  government of President Umaru Yar&#39;Adua.
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Four US nationals kidnapped this month in oil-rich southern Nigeria have been freed, official and diplomatic sources said Thursday.
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Abuja - A leading Nigerian opposition figure told AFP on Saturday that he had been released by the secret police after being detained and pressured to drop his support for an impending general strike.
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A Zimbabwe court Friday convicted a British man accused of leading a coup plot against the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea on weapons charges, but acquitted most of the 69 other men held with him.
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Four foreign hostages are freed unharmed in oil-rich southern Nigeria, after several weeks in captivity.
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A Zimbabwe court Friday convicted a  British man accused of leading a coup plot against the  government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea on weapons charges,  but acquitted most of the 69 other men held with him.
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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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Kidnappers have freed the cousin of Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a source in the premier&#39;s office said on Sunday.
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An Egyptian terror suspect, held by Britain for three years without trial because he was said to be the leader of an al Qaeda-linked militant group, has been released from prison, the government said on Tuesday.
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Kidnappers have freed the cousin of  Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a source in the  premier's office said on Sunday.