Nigeria: Militants promise a month of ‘mayhem’ in oil delta

Nigerian militant group MEND who have staged 10 attacks on Western oil facilities in the delta in the last nine days, kidnapping dozens of foreign workers and curbing output from the world’s eighth largest oil exporter, said on Wednesday it had instructed armed groups in the Niger Delta to unleash a month of “mayhem” to press its case for more autonomy in the oil-producing region.

“Groups are responding to a call we made to unleash mayhem in the delta,” said a spokesperson for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, who uses the pseudonym Jomo Gbomo, in an email.

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