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Fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) speed away from the militia's creek camp in the Niger Delta in 2008. Nigerian militants have said they have destroyed a Chevron oil pipeline junction and seized six crew from a ship in the latest attacks on Nigeria's key money earner since the government offered an amnesty.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)

Nigeria militants claim to hijack chemical tanker

AP - Mon Jul 6, 4:56 PM ET

ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria's main militant group said Monday it had seized a chemical tanker with six foreign crew members aboard and had attacked a second oil facility following a vow to step up the intensity of its attacks.

  • General view of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia in 2007. Ethnic Somali rebels in Ethiopia's Ogaden region claimed Monday they killed 90 government troops in recent clashes, but the government denied any losses, claiming victory instead.(AFP/File/Jose Cendon)
    Ethiopian rebels, government claim gains in restive region AFP - Mon Jul 6, 4:03 PM ET

    ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethnic Somali rebels in Ethiopia's Ogaden region claimed Monday they killed 90 government troops in recent clashes, but the government denied any losses, claiming victory instead.

  • Rwanda's President Paul Kagame attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 30, 2009. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
    Rwandan leader urges G8 to consult poor nations more Reuters - Mon Jul 6, 2:58 PM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame urged leaders of the Group of Eight on Monday to consult poor nations more, saying some in the developing world were skeptical of economic recipes handed down by rich countries.

  • Fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) as they prepare for an operation in the Niger Delta in 2008. Nigerian militants have said they have destroyed a Chevron oil pipeline junction and seized six crew from a ship in the latest attacks on Nigeria's key money earner since the government offered an amnesty.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
    Nigerian militants destroy Chevron facility, hijack tanker AFP - Mon Jul 6, 1:18 PM ET

    LAGOS (AFP) - Nigerian militants said Monday they destroyed a Chevron oil pipeline junction and seized six crew from a ship in the latest attacks on Nigeria's key money earner since the government offered an amnesty.

  • The South Africa Rugby Union were charged on Monday by the sport's governing body the International Rugby Board for alleged misconduct in breach of the IRB Regulations Relating to the Game including breaches of the IRB Code of Conduct.(IRB)
    South African rugby chiefs in hot water over Botha protest AFP - Mon Jul 6, 12:48 PM ET

    DUBLIN (AFP) - The South Africa Rugby Union were charged on Monday by the sport's governing body the International Rugby Board for alleged misconduct in breach of the IRB Regulations Relating to the Game including breaches of the IRB Code of Conduct.

  • FILE  --  In this Wednesday, Sept. 24, file photo, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is interviewed during the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters. President Robert Mugabe described the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs as 'an idiot' after an acrimonious meeting between the two at an African summit in Libya, Zimbabwe's state media reported Monday, July 6, 2009, The state Herald newspaper carried the remarks after a briefing Mugabe gave to Zimbabwean reporters at the end of last week's summit of the continentwide African Union.  U.S. Embassy officials in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia, where Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson is visiting, would not comment on the remarks.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig/file)
    Report: Mugabe calls top US official 'an idiot' AP - Mon Jul 6, 12:07 PM ET

    HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe described the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs as "an idiot" after an acrimonious meeting between the two at an African summit in Libya, Zimbabwe's state media reported Monday.

  • Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo Basile Ikouebe addresses the UN General Assembly in New York City in 2007. Ikouebe has said that the African Union will send about 30 observers to monitor presidential elections in the Republic of Congo on July 12.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)
    AU to send observers to Congo presidential poll AFP - Mon Jul 6, 11:41 AM ET

    BRAZZAVILLE (AFP) - The African Union will send about 30 observers to monitor presidential elections in the Republic of Congo on Sunday, Foreign Minister Basile Ikouebe said.

  • This file photo shows Sudanese workers loading a truck with humanitarian aid in West Darfur. The identity of an armed group which snatched two foreign Darfur aid workers was shrouded in mystery as officials and diplomats scrambled to find out more about the kidnappers.(AFP/File/Cris Bouroncle)
    Mystery over fate of kidnapped Darfur aid workers AFP - Mon Jul 6, 10:02 AM ET

    KHARTOUM (AFP) - The identity of an armed group which snatched two foreign Darfur aid workers was shrouded in mystery on Monday as officials and diplomats scrambled to find out more about the kidnappers.

  • India's Rahul Dravid plays a shot during the semi-final of the Indian Premier League in Johannesburg in May. India on Monday picked Dravid for their squad for the Champions Trophy tournament in South Africa in September, nearly two years after his last one-day international.(AFP/File/Saeed Khan)
    India pick Dravid for Champions Trophy AFP - Mon Jul 6, 9:13 AM ET

    NEW DELHI (AFP) - India on Monday picked ace batsman Rahul Dravid for their squad for the Champions Trophy tournament in South Africa in September, nearly two years after his last one-day international.

  • Two Ethiopian soldiers walk on a road leading to the eastern Ethiopian border town of Badme in 2008. Ethiopian lawmakers have voted to maintain a defence budget of 400 million dollars despite threats of invasion from Islamist militias in neighboring Somalia.(AFP/File)
    Ethiopia military budget unchanged despite threat AFP - Mon Jul 6, 8:18 AM ET

    ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopian lawmakers voted Monday to maintain a defence budget of 400 million dollars despite threats of invasion from Islamist militias in neighboring Somalia.

  • View of the US Chevron's Idama on the Sambreiro River in the Niger Delta. Nigerian militants says they have destroyed a Chevron oil pipeline junction in the latest attack on Nigeria's key money earner since the government offered an amnesty.(AFP/File/Dave Clark)
    Chevron pipe 'destroyed' in Niger Delta: militants AFP - Mon Jul 6, 7:52 AM ET

    LAGOS (AFP) - Nigerian militants said on Monday they destroyed a Chevron oil pipeline junction in the latest attack on Nigeria's key money earner since the government offered an amnesty.

  • Nigeria rebels attack oil facility, hijack tanker Reuters - Mon Jul 6, 6:56 AM ET

    ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's main militant group said Monday it had sabotaged a Chevron oil facility and seized a chemical tanker and six crew members, the latest in a string of attacks in Africa's biggest energy producer.

  • Fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) speed away from the militia's creek camp in the Niger Delta in 2008. Militants in Nigeria's restive oil-producing south have said they have seized a vessel and its six foreign crew members on board: three Russians, two Filipinos and an Indian national.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
    Nigeria militants 'seize vessel with foreign crew' AFP - Mon Jul 6, 6:46 AM ET

    LAGOS (AFP) - Militants in Nigeria's restive oil-producing south said Monday they had seized a vessel and its six foreign crew members on board: three Russians, two Filipinos and an Indian national.

  • File photo shows fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) as they prepare for an operation in the Niger Delta. Nigerian militants have said they have destroyed a Chevron oil pipeline junction and seized six crew from a ship in the latest attacks on Nigeria's key money earner since the government offered an amnesty.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
    Nigerian militants claim to destroy Chevron facility AFP - Mon Jul 6, 12:05 AM ET

    LAGOS (AFP) - Nigerian militants said they destroyed a strategic facility owned by US oil group Chevron hours after they claimed an attack on Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell.

  • FILE -- In this Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006 file photo  miners dig for diamonds in Marange, eastern Zimbabwe.  Zimbabwe's official media says the coalition government has vowed to withdraw troops from the Marange diamond fields and pledged to meet international mining standards. The report Sunday July 5, 2009 follows allegations of human rights abuses and illegal exports of 'blood diamonds' from the gem-producing district in the east of the country.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi-File)
    Zimbabwe vows to pull troops out of diamond fields AP - Sun Jul 5, 12:05 PM ET

    HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe has promised to withdraw its soldiers from diamond fields in the east, an official newspaper reported Sunday — a week after a rights group alleged the military was committing killings and abuses in the area.

  • A member of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) poses with a heavy machine-gun in the Niger Delta in 2008. MEND rebels announced on Sunday they had launched a fresh attack on an oil facility run by the Anglo-Dutch group Shell in the restive Niger Delta.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
    Nigerian rebels claim new attack on Shell facility AFP - Sun Jul 5, 10:21 AM ET

    LAGOS (AFP) - Nigerian rebels announced on Sunday they had launched a fresh attack on an oil facility run by the Anglo-Dutch group Shell in the restive Niger Delta.

  • The candidate for the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, Malam Bacai Sanha pictured outside a polling station in Bissau on June 28. The second round of presidential elections in Guinea-Bissau has been brought forward to July 26 to enable farmers in the west African nation to continue harvesting unhindered, a statement said on Sunday.(AFP/File/Seyllou)
    Guinea-Bissau presidential vote brought forward AFP - Sun Jul 5, 9:08 AM ET

    BISSAU (AFP) - The second round of presidential elections in Guinea-Bissau has been brought forward to July 26 to enable farmers in the west African nation to continue harvesting unhindered, a statement said on Sunday.

  • Islamic fighters shoot towards Somali government forces during clashes, Friday, July 3, 2009 in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Over the past two months, Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed's government has come under heavy attacks from Islamic insurgents pounding government positions with mortars and targeting senior officials in suicide attacks.  (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
    Somali fighting kills at least 12 in Mogadishu AP - Sun Jul 5, 8:54 AM ET

    MOGADISHU, Somalia - Heavy shelling between Somali rebels and government forces near the presidential palace killed at least 12 people on Sunday, witnesses said, and the prime minister looked for help from more African Union peacekeepers.

  • A child is seen on the side-walk in a neighbourhood of northern Nigeria's Kano city. Child abduction for ritual killings is on the rise in the Nigerian city of Kano, say officials and advocacy groups who blame the trend on greed for political power and quick wealth in this northern commercial center.(AFP/File/Aminu Abubakar)
    Child snatching for rituals on the rise in Nigeria AFP - Sun Jul 5, 1:54 AM ET

    KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Child abduction for ritual killings is on the rise in the Nigerian city of Kano, say officials and advocacy groups who blame the trend on greed for political power and quick wealth in this northern commercial center.

  • Young Mursi women ready themselves for a tribal ceremony, in the South Omo River valley of Ethiopia, a region that is home to 16 traditional communities who now seem to be burying the hatchet and changing their lifestyle after centuries of inter-clan rivalry.(AFP/File/Aaron Maasho)
    Tourism, religion threaten Ethiopia's tribal warriors AFP - Sun Jul 5, 1:33 AM ET

    TURMI, Ethiopia (AFP) - Ethiopia's Hamer people, a long isolated, pastoral warrior tribe, are increasingly opening up to tourists, a move some fear could endanger age-old traditions with too much exposure to foreign cultural influence.

  • Andrew Heavens is a reporter and photographer who has worked with Reuters since 2005, first from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and now Khartoum, Sudan. His African career followed 10 years of reporting for newspapers in Britain and the United States.
    WITNESS: Battling to borrow money in sanctions-hit Sudan Reuters - Sat Jul 4, 8:40 PM ET

    Andrew Heavens is a reporter and photographer who has worked with Reuters since 2005, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and now Khartoum, Sudan. His African career followed 10 years of reporting for newspapers in Britain and the United States. In the following story, he recounts his experience of U.S. economic sanctions on the country whose president Omar Hassan al-Bashir is accused of masterminding human rights abuses in Darfur.

  • Rebel fighters drive their armoured battle wagon at an unknown location on the Sudan-Chad border in northwest Darfur, in 2007. Sudanese authorities were trying on Saturday to establish contact with kidnappers who snatched two foreign aid workers from their offices in Darfur, a foreign ministry official said.(AFP/AMIS/File/Stuart Price)
    Sudan tries to contact kidnappers of Darfur aid workers AFP - Sat Jul 4, 3:18 PM ET

    KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudanese authorities were trying on Saturday to establish contact with kidnappers who snatched two foreign aid workers from their offices in Darfur, a foreign ministry official said.

  • Zimbabweans rest in there make shift homes at the show grounds in Musina in 2008. South African human rights organisations on Saturday condemned the arrest of about 300 destitute Zimbabwean nationals.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)
    S.African human rights bodies slam arrest of homeless Zimbabweans AFP - Sat Jul 4, 2:54 PM ET

    JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South African human rights organisations on Saturday condemned the arrest of about 300 destitute Zimbabwean nationals.

  • U.S. hopes Obama's visit to Ghana will spur others Reuters - Sat Jul 4, 1:58 PM ET

    NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United States hopes President Barack Obama's decision to visit Ghana this month will spur other African governments to try and emulate the West African country's democratic record.

  • Ireland seeks release of Darfur aid workers AP - Sat Jul 4, 1:52 PM ET

    DUBLIN, Ireland - The head of an Irish humanitarian aid agency appealed Saturday for the release of two of its employees kidnapped in Darfur.

  • Captain Ahmed Hassan, seen here in action in June 2009, insists struggling Egypt can reach the 2010 World Cup in South Africa ahead of a crucial qualifier against Rwanda in Cairo Sunday.(AFP/File/Vincenzo Pinto)
    Captain Hassan insists Egypt can qualify for World Cup AFP - Sat Jul 4, 12:39 PM ET

    JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Captain Ahmed Hassan insists struggling Egypt can reach the 2010 World Cup in South Africa ahead of a crucial qualifier against Rwanda in Cairo Sunday.

  • British and Irish Lions Shane Williams avoides a tackle from Zane Kirchner of the Springboks during the Final Rugby Test in Johannesburg at Ellis Park Stadium. A sparkling Williams double helped the British and Irish Lions claim a comprehensive 28-9 victory in the third and final Test against South Africa at Ellis Park.(AFP/Alexander Joe)
    Williams sparks pride-salvaging Lions win over Boks AFP - Sat Jul 4, 12:20 PM ET

    JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - A sparkling Shane Williams double helped the British and Irish Lions claim a comprehensive 28-9 victory in the third and final Test against South Africa at Ellis Park here on Saturday.

  • Morocco arrests brother of top Islamist group member Reuters - Sat Jul 4, 12:00 PM ET

    RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco has arrested the brother of a prominent figure in the country's main Islamist opposition group on suspicion of belonging to a hashish smuggling ring, police said on Saturday.

  • Central African Republic (CAR) soldiers participate in a parade in 2004. The head of a rebel group which refused to endorse a 2008 peace deal for the Central African Republic has performed a U-turn, mediators said.(AFP/File/Desirey Minkoh)
    Central African Republic rebels sign peace deal: mediator AFP - Sat Jul 4, 11:41 AM ET

    LIBREVILLE (AFP) - The head of a rebel group which refused to endorse a 2008 peace deal for the Central African Republic has performed a U-turn, mediators said Saturday.

  • Sudan police search for kidnapped aid workers Reuters - Sat Jul 4, 11:34 AM ET

    KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security services were searching Saturday for two kidnapped female aid workers, one Ugandan and one Irish, taken from their compound in Darfur, said Irish humanitarian group Goal which employs the women.

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