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Article: VOA NEWS: LEADERS IN NIGERIA'S RESTIVE NIGER DELTA REJECT GOVERNMENT-PROPOSED SUMMIT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 7, 2008
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Peter Clottey
Community leaders in Nigeria's restive oil-rich Niger Delta have unanimously rejected a government-proposed summit aimed at resolving the military crisis in the region. The leaders claimed they have lost confidence in the government's lack of political will to resolve the problems in the region. But President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has reportedly said the rejection of the summit would significantly undermine the implementation of government's policies. He said the summit must hold in the interest of peace and security and for the development of the oil-producing region, promising that it would not turn out to be yet another ...
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