Nigerian Rebels to Widen Conflict, Target Agip
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Nigerian rebels battling troops in  Africa's top oil exporter declared on Sunday they would extend  their uprising across the whole of the country's oil-producing  southern delta.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- The leader of militia fighters threatening to widen a battle for control of Nigeria's oil-rich south said yesterday he agreed to a tentative deal with President Olusegun Obasanjo to end fighting in Africa's leading petroleum exporter that has riled global oil markets.
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Rebels in Nigeria's Delta region agree to halt attacks on oil installations and launch democratic struggle.
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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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Nigerian rebels fighting for sovereignty  of the oil-producing Niger delta told oil companies in the  world's seventh largest exporter to shut production before they  begin an "all-out war" on Oct. 1.
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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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LAGOS, Nigeria - Insurgents in Nigeria&#39;s southern Niger Delta will begin an armed struggle to wrest control of the region&#39;s oil riches from the federal government starting Oct. 1, a rebel spokesman said Tuesday.
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Two new rebel factions have emerged in Darfur, threatening to further complicate international peace efforts in Sudan&#39;s troubled western region, African Union and United Nations officials said on Sunday.
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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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A rebel fighting for autonomy in Nigeria&#39;s oil-producing Niger Delta says will meet President Olusegun Obasanjo to discuss terms for ending the violence that has helped push crude prices to record highs.
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ABUJA  - Nigeria will begin sending troops to join a newly expanded African truce-monitoring force in the war torn Sudanese region of Darfur on Thursday, the country&#39;s top military spokesman said.
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Sudanese officials and leaders of two rebel groups opened talks Monday in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, in an effort to end the fighting in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigerian rebels fighting for sovereignty of the oil-producing Niger delta told oil companies in the world's seventh-largest exporter to halt production before they begin an ''all-out war&quot; on Oct. 1.
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A prominent militant leader tells Nigeria's vice-president he will try to help end violence in the oil region.
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A new round of negotiations started yesterday in Abuja, capital of Nigeria, between the Sudanese movement and the two main rebel movements in Darfur which has been witnessing acts of riots that resulted in killing thousands of persons and displacing more
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The main militant group in Nigeria's lawless south pledged Saturday to stop attacks on foreign oil installations for a month so the country's new president can create a plan for lasting peace in the Niger Delta region.
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Rebel leaders from Sudan&#39;s Darfur region called on Thursday on Nigeria to intervene and kickstart African Union-sponsored talks on the crisis in the west of Sudan