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Nigeria militant group calls ceasefire
Mend :: Iran | about 1 month ago
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The Movement for the Emancipation for the Niger Delta, an umbrella organisation of numerous armed groups, had previously been threatening renewed attacks even as senior commanders and thousands of footsoldiers emerged from their bases deep in the delta’s...
Tags: Nigeria, Niger Delta, militants group, indefinitely cease, group called, main militants, nigeria militants, meaningful dialogue, encouraged dialogue, South Africa
FACTBOX - Militants groups in Pakistan's Punjab province
Lahore :: Pakistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Sunni Muslim Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) is one of the most notorious al Qaeda-linked groups with roots in Punjab. It also has forged strong ties with the Pakistani Taliban groups operating in the tribal areas on the Afghan border. A senior Lej leader, Qari...
Tags: Pakistani Taliban, militants group, Punjabi
FACTBOX - Militants groups in Pakistan's Punjab province
Bahāwalpur :: Pakistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Pakistan's Punjab province has been a battleground for hardline militant groups for years but new fears are arising over the activity of these groups as the government focuses on factions on the Afghan border. Pakistan nurtured Islamists during the 1980s...
Tags: Pakistan, Taliban, Kashmir, militants group
Nigerian oil militants surrender rockets, guns
Lagos :: Nigeria | 3 months ago
Credibility A top militant leader and 1,000 fighters surrendered to the Nigerian government Saturday, turning in their weapons in the biggest hand-over since an amnesty began two weeks ago, but other fighters said attacks in the oil-rich Delta region will resume...
Tags: Nigerian Tribune, militants group, militants surrender
Amnesty for Nigerian oil militants under way
Abuja :: Nigeria | 4 months ago
Credibility A 60-day amnesty for militant groups in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta came into effect on Thursday -- a move the government hopes will end attacks on oil facilities. Nigeria's main militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta,...
Tags: Nigerian, militants group, Niger Delta, main militants
Nigeria rebels attack oil facility, hijack tanker
Mend :: Iran | 5 months ago
Credibility Nigeria's main militant group said on Monday it had sabotaged a Chevron oil facility and seized a chemical tanker and six crew members, the latest in a string of attacks in Africa's biggest energy producer. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger...
Tags: Chevron Nigeria Limited, Chevron Corp., Niger Delta, U.S, militants group, main militants, chevron oil, economic recovery, chemical tanker
Oil prices climb on Nigeria violence
Mend :: Iran | 5 months ago
Credibility Oil prices gained ground Thursday on renewed violence in key crude producer Nigeria and as traders absorbed the latest US energy inventories report, analysts said. London's Brent North Sea crude for August delivery rose 45 cents to 68.78 dollars per barrel.
Tags: Nigerian, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Niger Delta Vigilante Movement, Shell Pipeline, U.S, militants group, main militants, oil rose, oil rises, export terminal
Nigerian Militants Free UK Hostage
Port Harcourt :: Nigeria | 5 months ago
Credibility A Nigerian militant group said on Friday it had freed a British oil worker held captive for nine months in the creeks of the Niger Delta. Matthew Maguire was handed over to the Nigerian government officials at a secret rendezvous," the militant group...
Tags: Nigerian, Nigeria-EU Ministerial Troika, oil worker, Matthew Maguire, Niger Delta, militants group, Chevron Corp., government officially
Nigerian militant group attacks oil pipelines
Lagos :: Nigeria | 6 months ago
Credibility Chevron storage facility by destroying several pipelines that fed into it. "This will henceforth become our standard mode of operation," the group said in a statement. The U.S.-based Chevron Corporation could not be immediately reached for an assessment...
Tags: Nigeria, Chevron Corporation, Niger Delta, Chevron Corp., oil pipelines, militants group, Abiteye, military offensive, Dibi, Otunana
Suicide bombing kills eight in Pakistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 months ago
Credibility Around two dozen people were injured in the attack, which took place in a busy market in Jandola town in a semi-tribal region of North-West Frontier Province. "The suicide bombing was apparently aimed at the members of a Turkistan group," said an intelligence...
Tags: Afghanistan, Pakistan, suicide bomber, taliban attack, police officer, Taliban, militants group, southern afghanistan, afghans police
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