Call to free Nigeria oil militant
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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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The family of a Briton held hostage in Iraq issue an emotional plea for his release to the militants holding him.
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A militant group in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta said Thursday that a Lebanese hostage it reportedly freed had in fact escaped, and threatened retaliation against the Italian oil firm he worked for.
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Yusuf Islam, the singer and song-writer formerly known as Cat Stevens, has urged Islamic militants in Iraq to free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, seized 10 days ago and threatened with death.
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Angola extradited to Nigeria a man accused of leading a militant group that attacked foreign workers and installations in Africa's largest oil nation, an official said Friday.
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Threats against foreign oil workers have brought the Nigerian government to the negotiating table with the self-styled Nigerian warlord Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, whose band of 2,000 poorly
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The International Transport Workers' Federation has appealed for the release of an Iranian union leader who reportedly was kidnapped earlier this week in Tehran.
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Singer Cat Stevens has urged Ken Bigleyâs militant Islamic kidnappers to show mercy to their captive âin the name of Allahâ.
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The Iraqi husband of kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan has pleaded with her captors to release her. &quot;I beg you, in the name of Islam and Arabism, while we are in the holiest Islamic month, to return my
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A Nigerian militant group, the Movement  for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has claimed  responsibility for a raid on an oil export terminal on Thursday  in which four expatriate workers were kidnapped.
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The Nigerian government sought a court  injunction on Wednesday to stop a three-day-old general strike  which has raised fears about oil supplies from the world's  seventh largest exporter.
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A rebel warlord accused the Nigerian  government of violating a cease-fire and threatened to blow up  a gas plant on Friday, reviving a threat to Nigerian oil  operations which has driven crude prices to a record high.
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The group, which launched a wave of kidnappings and attacks on oil pipelines earlier this year to press for the release of two of the oil-rich delta region's jailed leaders
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A British hostage threatened with death by a militant Islamic group appealed to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain yesterday to save
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THE family of British engineer Kenneth Bigley, held hostage in Iraq for more than two weeks, has asked Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi to help secure his release, they said today.
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Militants behind attacks on Nigeria's oil infrastructure have asked the United States and President Bush to mediate to try to end a crisis that has seen foreign workers kidnapped and cut output of Africa's biggest producer.
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An accused Equatorial Guinea coup ringleader who is facing a possible death penalty sought today to clear his imprisoned co-defendants in the alleged plot to overthrow the oil-flush African regime.