Nigerian militants call off truce
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Nigerian miliants in the oil-rich Delta end a voluntary ceasefire saying talks with the government have failed.
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Nigeria on Saturday suspended a deal by a previous government allowing the private sector to run the country&#39;s federal government-owned &quot;unity&quot; schools.
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A rebel Nigerian warlord withdrew a threat to shut oil operations in the world&#39;s seventh largest exporter Friday as part of a peace deal negotiated with the government.
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The Nigerian government has signed a cease-fire with three rebel groups that had been targeting foreign oil companies and their workers in the Niger Delta region, government officials said Friday.
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Rebels in Nigeria&#39;s oil-rich Niger Delta have agreed to stop fighting government forces and hand in their weapons. In a statement on Friday, the Nigerian president&#39;s office said an agreement to cease all hostilities had been reached.
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Rebel groups in Nigeria's Delta region have agreed to stop hostilities against the government, officials confirm.
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Peace talks between the Sudanese Government and rebel groups have broken down in the Nigerian capital Abuja. The negotiations have been adjourned for a month after failing to deliver a compromise.
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Royal Dutch/Shell Group&#39;s Nigerian venture, which pumps almost half the oil in Africa&#39;s biggest oil producer, closed an oil-pumping station and reduced the movement of staff after rebels threatened to attack oil installations.
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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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Two rival militias in Nigeria's Niger Delta, where unrest sent world oil prices soaring this week, promised they would stop fighting government forces and hand in their weapons, a statement from the Nigerian presidency said.
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A ceasefire in the 20-year civil war between Uganda's government and LRA rebels runs out on Wednesday.
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The leader of a Nigerian rebel militia,  whose threats to the nation's oil industry have lifted world  oil prices, said peace talks would resume on Thursday following  a truce agreed with the government.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian militants freed 12 foreign hostages and one Nigerian 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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The chief negotiator for the city of Fallujah said Monday that he had called off peace talks with the Iraqi government on the orders of guerrillas who control the city
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The Nigerian government has confirmed reports that rebel groups in the country&#39;s main oil producing region have agreed to a ceasefire.
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A powerful Nigerian armed group  threatened in an e-mail to the media on Sunday to resume  attacks on oil facilities and kidnapping of foreigners, ending  a four-month ceasefire.
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LAGOS, Nigeria - A gunbattle between security forces and Islamic militants fighting to create a Taliban-style state in northern Nigeria left 29 people dead, most of them militants, police said Friday.    In the southern oil region, meanwhile, clashes between troops and tribal militia fighters forced oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell to evacuate two facilities, the company said...