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ABUJA (AFP) – Nigeria on Wednesday approved dozens of projects aimed at easing tensions in the oil-rich Niger Delta, where unrest in the past three years has hurt the country's lucrative oil industry. Information Minister Dora Akunyili told reporters some 45 projects had been approved by the...

LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria's main militant group said on Sunday it had attacked three oil installations belonging to Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta, widening a month-old offensive against Africa's biggest energy industry. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said in...