Article: Five Russian hostages released in Niger Delta region

Article: Nigeria hands over Russian hostages to Russian ...
Xinhua News Agency;  February 21, 2009 ;     446 words ...Nigeria hands over Russian hostages to Russian ambassador ... has handed over two Russian hostages, Sergey Zamotaylov ... kidnappers and secure the Niger Delta region in particular ... security problem in the Niger Delta area.

Article: Russian hostages escape kidnappers in Nigeria
AP Online;  February 19, 2009 ;     647 words ... ... south. Hundreds of expatriate and Nigerian hostages have been taken during three years of rising violence across the southern Niger Delta region, which is the seat of Africa's biggest oil industry. Victims are normally released after a ransom is paid. Three ...

Article: Roundup: Vandalism rampant Niger delta region of ...
Xinhua News Agency;  July 12, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Roundup: Vandalism rampant Niger delta region of Nigeria -- By Bosen ... foreigners have been seized in the Niger Delta since early 2006. Though almost ... groups have since mushroomed in the Niger Delta and have taken advantage of the ...

Article: Niger Delta: THE TRUE STORY
New African;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... dependent on resources existing in the Niger Delta where the mere whisper of unrest sends ... threaten Nigeria's oil production. The Niger Delta is a vast system of wetlands and forests ... geographic definition. Today, however, the Niger Delta is more widely referred to as a political ...

Article: VOA NEWS: NIGERIA'S NIGER DELTA MILITANTS ISSUE NEW ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it intends to spread its ... questions of the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta region. He told VOA that the problem of the Niger Delta is a Nigeria problem. "The other regions ...

Article: NIGERIA: SLOW START FOR NIGER DELTA AMNESTY
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  August 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... insurgency in the country's oil-rich Niger Delta region. Under a government initiative ... monitors the inflow of small arms into the Niger Delta. "The quantity of arms being turned ... reflect the high number of arms in the Niger Delta." Militants unimpressed That few weapons ...

Article: VOA NEWS: NIGERIANS CALL FOR RELEASE OF NIGER DELTA ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... judge. Dokubo-Asari, leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, has been detained ... treason. He comes from the oil-rich Niger delta region, and militant groups there have ... the root causes of the problems in the Niger Delta. "You cannot solve the problem through ...