Rebel Gunmen Aim to Seize Control of Nigeria’s Vast Oil Reserves

If the rising cost of the world’s oil can be blamed on any one man, a portly African militia leader with a poster of Osama bin Laden glowering from his wall is the most likely culprit.

Al-Haji Mujahid Dokubo Asari, the leader of a motley collection of gunmen styling themselves the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, managed to push the world oil price above $50 a barrel last year.

His homeland in the verdant Delta region of southern Nigeria holds the largest oil reserves in sub-Saharan Africa and Mr Asari aims to seize this wealth for his Ijaw tribe.
Telegraph