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Article: VOA NEWS: NIGERIA REVIVES NIGER DELTA PEACE CAMPAIGN
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 8, 2008
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Gilbert da Costa
A 40-person technical committee was commissioned, Monday by the Nigerian government to draw up recommendations to end the crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta. But the main rebel group has rejected the plan. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa has more in this report from Abuja.
Following the collapse of the government's attempts to negotiate a settlement with oil rebels, the new committee is mandated to review previous reports on ways to develop the Niger Delta and to advise government accordingly.
Nigeria, the world's eighth largest oil exporter, is already suffering huge losses because of violence in the Delta.
Authorities have ...