Article: VOA NEWS: NIGERIA'S NIGER DELTA MILITANTS ISSUE NEW THREAT

Article: VOA NEWS: NIGERIA'S NIGER DELTA MILITANTS SENT BUSH ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... MEND. From the creeks of the Niger Delta, he told VOA the Nigerian ... meted out to Dr. Christopher Ikeyor president of the Ijaw Youth ... mission to the creeks of the Niger Delta. "Doctor Christopher Ikeyor was arrested accompanied by ...

Article: VOA NEWS: YOUTH LEADER CALLS ON MILITANTS TO HOLD OFF ON ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the militants in the Niger Delta. On the threat by MEND ... with the people of the Niger Delta about their long-held ... Goodluck Jonathan whom Ikeyor described as a big brother from the Niger Delta region. "We have our ...

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: 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 ...

Article: Guns and justice in the Niger Delta.(View from ...
New Internationalist;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Nigeria's Niger Delta has known a long history of struggle ... declared a separate republic in the Niger Delta. Boro accused the post-independence ... Even before Boro, leaders in the Niger Delta had agitated for a separate state ...