Nigeria works to free seized girl
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Nigerian authorities intensify efforts to free a three-year-old British girl kidnapped in the Niger Delta.
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A Lebanese hostage abducted with three Italians in southern Nigeria has been freed after being held for more than 10 weeks, the Italian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian militants freed 12 foreign hostages in the oil producing Niger Delta on Monday as a prelude to peace talks with the incoming government of President Umaru Yar'Adua.
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International aid organisation CARE is trying to secure the release of its Iraq director who was kidnapped in Baghdad early yesterday morning.
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The Iraqi government said it would release one of the female prisoners whose freedom is being demanded by Islamic militant kidnappers who are threatening to kill a third Western hostage.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing region claim responsibility for the kidnapping of four foreign workers.
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A 3-year-old Nigerian  boy has been kidnapped in the oil-producing Niger Delta in  southern Nigeria, police said on Thursday, four days after a  British girl of the same age was released by her kidnappers.
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One of four foreigners kidnapped last week during an attack on oil installation in southern Nigeria that all the hostages are &quot;fine&quot;.
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Gunmen have kidnapped the two-year-old daughter of a Shell worker in Port Harcourt, the country&#39;s oil capital, Nigerian authorities and company sources said Thursday.
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Nigerian kidnappers have  demanded 10 million naira ($78,600) for a 3-year-old boy they  snatched on his way to school in the lawless Niger Delta,  relatives of the toddler said on Friday.
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Margaret Hill, a three-year-old British girl seized in Port Harcourt on Thursday, has been released.
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Nigerian kidnappers have released six hostages seized on October 26 from an Italian offshore oil production facility, private security contractors working for oil companies said on Tuesday.
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Government troops arrested about 100 people in a search for militants suspected of taking oil industry workers hostage in Nigeria's petroleum-rich south, the army said Saturday.
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Nigerian security agents have stepped up efforts to secure the release of four foreign oil and gas workers who were taken prisoner this week in the restive Niger Delta.
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Nigerian militants said they  planned to release 11 foreign hostages in the oil producing  Niger Delta on Monday and state authorities said they were on  their way to collect them.
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Nigerian gunmen have released a British toddler who was kidnapped in the country's oil-rich south, a regional official said Sunday.
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The Nigerian military has stormed a hideout and freed one of two Chinese workers abducted by unknown gunmen more than two months ago in the country&#39;s southeast, the police said Monday.