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Nigeria: Kidnappings raise fears of fresh violence
[IndependentOnline: 2010-02-08]
Fresh attacks on oil pipelines and a spate of new kidnappings have heightened fears that a peace deal in southern Nigeria"s oil war has lost momentum because of President Umaru Yar"Adua"s health problems. Yar"Adua proposed an unconditional amnesty for militants in the Niger Delta last July, aimed at ending a crippling three-year conflict which slashed the output of one of the world"s biggest oil producers by around 20 percent. Thousands of militants handed in th. . .
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