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Article: Niger Delta militants vow more attacks.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 21, 2009
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Byline: Scott Baldauf Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Johannesburg, South Africa -- Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta - a major supplier of oil for US markets - is taking another turn toward violence. Militants based in the Niger Delta have taken credit for a series of attacks against Shell and Chevron pipelines in recent days, prompting Chevron to evacuate hundreds of its employees from the region. The most organized of these militant groups, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has also threatened to expand its war from the delta into northern parts of Nigeria. That region is home to President Umaru Yar'Adua, whom they blame ...