Article: Shell begins evacuating staff after deaths in Niger Delta

Article: Troops, ethnic militants exchange fire in tense ...
AP Worldstream;  May 2, 2003 ;     642 words ... ... Press. Ethnic warfare, pitting the Niger Delta's two largest tribes _ the Ijaws and ... military and disrupted voting in the Niger Delta during Nigerian presidential, national ... this month's previous elections. The Niger Delta has long been riven by ethnic and political ...

Article: Oil multinationals stay out of tense Niger Delta ...
AP Worldstream;  March 27, 2003 ;     579 words ... ... resume normal operations in the restive Niger Delta, despite a cease-fire called a day earlier by ethnic militants whose battles with soldiers and rival ... Ekpebide, an official of the Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities. Security force officials ...

Article: Shell evacuates staff after fighting in oil-rich Niger ...
AP Worldstream;  March 16, 2003 ;     518 words ... ... staff from Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta, where five people were killed in clashes between troops and ethnic militants. The pullout came after fighting ... based. Activists of the Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities accused the navy ...

Article: Troops exchange fire with Niger Delta militants, ...
AP Worldstream;  January 16, 2004 ;     474 words ... ... Nigerian troops exchanged fire with armed ethnic militants in the West African nation's oil-rich Niger Delta, leaving at least one militant dead ... townspeople fled the violence. The Niger Delta is the scene of frequent clashes as ...

Article: Oil Multinationals: Niger Delta Unsafe
AP Online;  March 27, 2003 ;     546 words ... ... multinationals said Thursday the Niger Delta still is too unsafe to resume operations despite a cease-fire by ethnic militants. The truce follows nearly two ... an official of the Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities. Army spokesman ...

Article: Shell shuts pipeline facilities in wake of Niger ...
AP Worldstream;  March 17, 2003 ;     598 words ... ... the volatile Niger Delta after three ... clashes between ethnic militants and Nigerian ... after Ijaw ethnic militants seized a barge ... officers and Ijaw ethnic militants exchanged fire ... the Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities ...

Article: Multinational oil firms airlift villagers from Niger ...
AP Worldstream;  March 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... fighting in the oil-rich Niger Delta that killed scores ... and Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic militants. Hundreds of troop ... The unrest in the Niger Delta has forced oil multinationals ... with the Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities ...