From allAfrica.com…………….A Nigerian militant group said yesterday it had attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil pipeline in the Niger Delta. The Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), a coalition of ex-militants and community leaders, said it had disabled a trunk line in the Obunoma area of Rivers state connecting several flow stations to the Bonny export terminal.

And these are only the ex-militants. The main militant group in the region, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), called off a three-month old ceasefire a week ago and threatened to unleash an “all-out assault” on the OPEC member’s energy industry.

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