Militants in Nigeria’s Oil Region End Cease-Fire, Will Resume Attacks
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A Total SA offshore oil and gas production platform in Amenam, Nigeria, in 2005.
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A militant group in Nigeria’s southern Niger River delta, whose attacks on oil installations in 2016 cut output to the lowest in three decades, said it ended a self-imposed cease-fire and will resume its violent campaign.
“Our operatives are intact and focused, ready to implement instructions,” the Niger Delta Avengers said in a statement on its website on Friday by a spokesman identified as Mudoch Agbinibo. “We can assure you that every oil installation in our region will feel warmth of the wrath.”