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Nigeria: Ending Unrest in the Niger Delta

Garowe Online : "Dakar/Brussels, 5 December 2007: Nigeria’s President Umaru Yar’Adua needs to act decisively to keep violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta from escalating and spreading. Nigeria: Ending Unrest in the Niger Delta,* the latest International Crisis Group report, examines steps needed to address the conflict’s root causes and stop the region from slipping back into chaos. The May inauguration of new federal and state governments and the truce declared shortly after by armed groups created an opportunity, but attacks on oil installations by militants and kidnappings by criminals are again on the rise"

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