MEND takes responsibility for latest Nigeria oil town attack      (AFP/Getty Images)
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AFP/Getty Images - The most prominent armed group in southern Nigeria has claimed responsibility for a dynamite attack Monday night on the convoy of a port authority official in Nigeria's oil hub city Port Harcourt.
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Armed men have seized control of an oil complex in southern Nigerian owned by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, authorities said Friday.
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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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One foreign oil worker was killed and another seriously wounded on Wednesday when the Nigerian military launched a mission to free seven oil workers taken hostage from an offshore oil field, military sources said.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 29 -- New Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua vowed in his inaugural address Tuesday to work urgently to quell rising violence in the volatile Niger Delta, a major source of oil exports to the United States.
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The threat of violence in petroleum-rich Nigeria this week, followed by a spike in oil prices, underscored yet again that country&#39;s importance and danger to companies that work there.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian gunmen attacked an Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta at dawn on Thursday, kidnapping four foreign workers and killing a local youth, authorities said.
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LONDON -- Crude oil prices rose yesterday after a deadly attack on an oil facility in Nigeria, and as the US dollar weakened because of speculation of further interest rate hikes in Europe.
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Sudan's defence minister on Thursday admitted his forces were responsible for a recent attack on a UN convoy in Darfur, but insisted the peacekeepers were to blame for not announcing their route.
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Nigerian police say at least 26 people have been killed after thieves set alight a fuel pipeline in the commercial capital Lagos. The fire around the pipeline, which belongs to state energy
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Two explosions hit Nigeria's oil industry on Monday, industry sources said, moments after a militant group threatened to detonate three car bombs in the Niger Delta.
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PORT HARCOURT -- Militants said they killed 17 soldiers in two separate gun battles in Nigeria's oil heartland yesterday and threatened imminent attacks on strategic oil facilities. The killings extend to four days a surge in violence between troops and rebels in the world's eighth largest oil exporter and follow the kidnapping of seven foreign workers from a US company ...
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An oil tanker truck went out of control and plowed into a bustling Nigerian market, killing 17 and leaving dozens injured, police said Monday.
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(120 sec.) Africa's largest oil producer is facing a resurgence of violence and kidnappings driving oil prices up.
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Militant group MEND is preparing attacks on Nigerian oil facilities that could be preceded by hostage-taking, the U.S. embassy said in a security notice on Friday.
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LAGOS : The death toll from an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of the Nigerian city of Lagos has risen to around 60 as more bodies were recovered from the scene.
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Lagos, Nigeria, Sep. 30 (FIDES/CWNews.com) - Lagos (Fides Service)- The leader of a Nigerian rebel group which has threatened to sabotage oil production in the Niger River delta is in Abuja, the capital of