Tuareg rebels tell foreigner miners to leave Niger
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Tuareg-led rebels in northern Niger called on all foreign mining companies to withdraw their expatriate staff from the West African state for their own safety after they kidnapped a Chinese executive on Friday.
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Sudanese authorities have moved hundreds of pro-government fighters from the crisis-torn Darfur region to other parts of the country to keep them out of sight of
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Rebels from Darfur have attacked an oil field in a neighboring Sudanese region, abducted foreign workers, and given a one-week ultimatum for foreign oil companies to cease operating in the zone
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Rebels seeking to overthrow Chad's president withdraw from N'Djamena as government soldiers patrol steets
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Congo's president called on fighters loyal to a rebel leader in the restless eastern part of the country to join the national army, warning that the government would no longer tolerate militias.
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Militiamen trying to wrest control of the oil-rich Niger Delta threatened on Tuesday to launch a "full-scale armed struggle" on petroleum-pumping operations in Africa's largest crude oil producing nation, urging foreign oil workers to leave the region.
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Rebels from Ivory Coast shunned peace  talks in South Africa as hundreds more foreigners prepared on  Friday to leave the former French colony in the wake of days of  mob violence.
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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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impoverished inhabitants of the Niger delta, which pumps all the nation&#39;s oil. The government says he. is just a bandit fighting for control of smuggling routes used by oil thieves.
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Rebels from Ivory Coast shunned peace  talks in South Africa as hundreds more foreigners left the  former French colony on Friday after days of mob violence.
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LIMA, Peru  - The Peruvian government on Sunday  urged residents living near a captured police station to leave  their homes, saying it would give them temporary shelter.
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Nigerian rebel warlord Mujahid Dokubo-Asari said on Wednesday he had agreed a temporary ceasefire to allow talks with the government, but he repeated his warning to foreign oil workers to leave the Niger Delta.
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Foreigners continue to stream out of the West African nation of Ivory Coast despite promises from President Laurent Gbagbo to protect them after a surge of anti-Western violence.
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Niger's Tuareg-led rebels said on Saturday they had killed at least 12 soldiers and destroyed two army vehicles in the desert north of the central African country, but the military denied this.
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Niger&#39;s prime minister and military  chiefs met neighboring Algeria&#39;s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika  on Sunday to discuss cross-border cooperation against  Tuareg-led rebels in Niger&#39;s desert north, officials said.
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HUANUNI, Bolivia  - Rival groups of Bolivian miners battled with dynamite on Friday while officials worked to reimpose a truce and sent in hundreds of police to quell the deadly fighting at one of the world's largest tin mines.
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The rattling lift stops with a screech as a dozen men appear out of the semi-darkness. &quot;If I found another job, I would leave tomorrow,&quot; says Viorel, one of 2,500 miners in Lupeni in southern Romania.