Nigerian oil delta rebel detained in Angola
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The factional leader in a powerful Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told Reuters on Saturday.
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Foreign oil companies have increased security precautions amid fears of attacks by rebels in Nigeria&#39;s Niger Delta region. A group known as the Niger Delta People&#39;s Volunteer Force says it will attack foreign oil workers.
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Nigerian security forces arrested the country&#39;s top union official at gunpoint on Saturday, his union said, ahead of a general strike called for Monday which the government has declared illegal.
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A British engineer has been kidnapped in the oil-rich Niger delta, the Foreign Office confirmed today.
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Rebels in Nigeria's Delta region agree to halt attacks on oil installations and launch democratic struggle.
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Heavyily armed rebels seized a Briton, a Croat, a Russian and four Nigerians from an oil rig run after a three-hour gunbattle Sunday off southern Nigeria, industry and security sources said.
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ABUJA : Nigerian secret police detained the country&#39;s top trade union leader, dramatically raising tensions two days ahead of a threatened nationwide general strike against rising fuel prices.
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One of North Africa's most wanted  Islamic militant leaders, accused in the kidnapping of 32  European tourists last year, has been taken into custody in  Algeria, authorities said on Thursday.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen used dynamite and heavy machine guns to kidnap at least three senior managers of Indonesian chemical company Indorama in Nigeria's southern oil-producing Niger Delta, police said on Friday.
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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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The main militant group in Nigeria's oil region offered Sunday to halt attacks if one of its leaders is released from prison in Angola, where he is being held on arms smuggling charges.
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Plainclothes police detained a prominent Nigerian labor leader Saturday, bundling him into a car at an airport in an apparent effort to stop a threatened nationwide
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The leader of Algeria's second largest  Islamic rebel group has been arrested, the Interior Ministry  said Monday, dealing a fresh blow to radical Muslim militants  fighting the secular government.
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The United States embassy in Nigeria said  on Tuesday that it had received reports that an American  citizen was among oil workers kidnapped in the southern oil  city of Port Harcourt.
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Governors of Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta states ask the new president to free oil militant Mujahid Dokubo-Asari.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region occupy an oil station, along with about 28 people - including soldiers.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The chief of international  relations for Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group, who once  sought support from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, was arrested  after a months-long manhunt, police said on Wednesday.