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Nigeria: Amnesty for Niger Delta Rebels

Posted by Guest Author on October 26, 2008
Filed in: Community Report, Nigeria
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In Nigeria, the government of Rivers State in the Niger Delta has offered amnesty to several militant groups operating in the oil-rich area, if they stop attacking government facilities. In reply, the militants asked the government to withdraw its security forces from the areas under their control as a condition for peace. [...]

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