Niger Delta Militants Call Off Truce With Nigeria (ap)

This 2008 photo shows fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND). The armed Nigerian group announced on Saturday it is calling off its unilateral ceasefire decreed on October 25 in the country's vital oil-producing southern region.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AP – The main militant group in the oil-rich Niger Delta called off its cease-fire with the government Saturday morning, dealing a potential death blow to a presidential amnesty program aimed at ending violence that has crippled production in the West African nation.

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