Nigeria pulls troops from Bakassi
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Nigeria has pulled thousands  of troops out of the Bakassi peninsula ahead of a Monday  deadline for a complete withdrawal, but many residents said  they would resist a handover to Cameroon.
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The move will leave the southern Iraqi city without foreign forces for the first time since the American-led invasion in 2003.
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British troops were quitting the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday night in another step towards handing over the province to Iraqi control and paving the way for an eventual withdrawal of British forces from Iraq.
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British troops have begun pulling out of the southern Iraqi city of Basra in a move north to central Iraq. The 1st Battalion The Black Watch is to take over operations previously carried out by US troops in
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After four and a half inconclusive years of fighting, British forces during the night slipped out of their last base in the Iraqi oil port of Basra, handing control on Monday to their Iraqi comrades.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Talks aimed at averting an  explosion of fighting in Nigeria's oil production hub were  salvaged Friday when the government called off gunships and  helicopters sent to attack rebel militia.
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Georgia said on Friday its troops had withdrawn after seizing strategic ground in a rebel territory, in a move sure to be welcomed by Washington alarmed at a drift toward war in an economically vital region.
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An elite contingent of 50 Nigerian soldiers left Nigeria on Thursday for Darfur, the first stage in the deployment of 3,000 extra African Union (AU) troops to monitor a shaky cease-fire in the western Sudanese region.
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JAMMU, India, Nov. 20 -- India pulled about 3,000 troops out of Kashmir Saturday in a planned withdrawal of army units from the disputed region, Indian officials said.
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Georgia said on Friday its troops had  withdrawn after seizing strategic ground in a rebel territory,  in a move sure to be welcomed by Washington alarmed at a drift  toward war in an economically vital region.
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Britain's military deployment in southern Iraq is to be cut by 500 to 5,000 over the next few months, the Ministry of Defence announced yesterday, just six days after British troops withdrew from their base at Basra Palace.
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British troops in Iraq are withdrawing from their base in Basra palace to the city's airport.
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Hundreds of soldiers have been deployed on the streets of Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt, residents said, following reports up to 500 people killed in clashes in the past month.
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The Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell, withdraws hundreds of workers from oil facilities in Nigeria's troubled Niger Delta.
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A rebel Nigerian warlord withdrew a threat to shut oil operations in the world&#39;s seventh largest exporter Friday as part of a peace deal negotiated with the government.
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A rebel Nigerian warlord withdrew a threat to shut oil operations in the world's seventh largest exporter on Friday as part of a peace deal negotiated with the government.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - Ethiopian troops withdrew from the southern city of Kismayu, leaving it in the hands of Somalia's interim government until African Union (AU) peacekeepers arrive, officials said on Friday.