Nigerian Authorities Free Labor Leader
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The chief of Nigeria's main labor organization vowed that a four-day nationwide strike to protest fuel price hikes will go ahead Monday, and workers in the country's crude oil industry said they would join the work stoppage.
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Nigerian troops have rounded up scores of suspected militants in their hunt for hostage-takers as one of two Germans abducted in the oil-rich Niger Delta was released.
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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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Six foreign workers seized from a  Nigerian oil facility operated by U.S. energy giant Chevron on  May 1 were all freed on Saturday, the rebel group that abducted  them said.
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Indonesian police confirmed today that Abu Dujana, a major southeast Asia terrorist leader, had been arrested.
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The Somali government on Tuesday freed a senior U.N. food aid official who had been held for nearly a week after dozens of intelligence officers stormed the world body's compound in Mogadishu.
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ABUJA  - Nigeria braced for a nationwide strike as the country&#39;s top union leader emerged from secret police custody determined to pursue labour&#39;s opposition to President Olusegun Obasanjo&#39;s economic reforms.
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Kidnappers in Nigeria's  oil-producing Niger Delta have released an American engineer  and his Nigerian driver held captive since January 23,  authorities said on Sunday.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Kidnappers in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta have released an American engineer and his Nigerian driver held captive since January 23, authorities said on Sunday.
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Kidnappers in Nigeria free a three-year-old British girl held hostage since Thursday, officials say.
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Burma&#39;s military junta has freed prominent political prisoners during a mass release of four thousand detainees. He is a high-profile aide to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains under house arrest.
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A Nigerian court on Thursday ordered the provisional release of separatist leader Mujahid Asari Dokubo, who had been held since 2005 on treason charges.
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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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KUALA LUMPUR: One more freed Emergency Ordinanc
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There is no news of Adams Oshiomhole, the head of Nigeria's main union body, after his arrest on Saturday.
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The president of the largest labor union in Nigeria was arrested at gunpoint Saturday just two days before a general strike is due to take place.
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Four US oil workers kidnapped by armed gunmen in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta are freed after weeks in captivity.