Nigerian militia threatens oil workers
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Foreign oil workers in Nigeria were given three days notice to leave Tuesday by rebels who threaten &quot;all-out war&quot; against the government, the BBC reported.
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Armed men attacked a convoy in Nigeria's oil-rich southeastern delta Wednesday, sparking a gunbattle with security forces, a government security official said.
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Nigeria&#39;s labour unions threatened to toughen their stance and bring the country to a complete standstill on Friday for the third day of an indefinite general strike.
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Armed men kidnapped four more foreign oil workers in Nigeria's southern oil city of Port Harcourt but released three Filipinos abducted more than 10 days ago in the latest of a series of incidents in volatile Niger Delta.
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Nigerian militants and troops engaged in  a major firefight near an oil pumping station operated by Royal  Dutch Shell in the eastern part of the Niger Delta on  Wednesday, militants said.
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PORT HARCOURT, 28 Sep 2004 (IRIN) - An ethnic militia group in Nigeria&#39;s southeastern oil region vowed on Tuesday to attack oil workers there unless their companies shut down operations within three days.
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control  station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa  state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage,  security and industry sources said on Friday.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Militants said they killed nine soldiers in a 90-minute firefight in Nigeria's oil heartland on Wednesday and threatened imminent attacks on strategic oil facilities.
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Nigerian unions threatened to extend their nationwide general strike, which entered its third day on Wednesday, increasing concerns about production in Africa's biggest oil-exporting nation.
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Troops drove out gunmen holding some two dozen workers and soldiers hostage in a Nigerian oil installation Thursday, the military said. About a dozen gunmen were killed.
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Nigeria's main trade union says it will hold a second general strike which could target oil production.
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Nigerian oil militants say they have seized four foreigners and threaten more attacks ahead of an Opec summit.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Lolo Oluchi has painted over the bullet holes in the ceiling of her karaoke bar in this Nigerian oil city, where gunmen seized seven foreign oil workers last August, but the regulars haven't come back.
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ENVIRONMENTAL activists claim the latest outbreak of violence in Nigeria is simply the beginning of a civil war that could force Shell into a huge shake-up of its activities in the oil-rich country.
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Nigerian troops battled militia forces Thursday in the creeks and mangrove swamps of Africa's leading oil region, the Niger Delta, pressing an offensive that has forced thousands of villagers to flee their homes for this petroleum hub.
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Security is being beefed up in Nigeria's oil capital, Port Harcourt, after renewed violence left seven dead.
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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.