Nigeria's Unrest In The Oil Rich Delta Region Continues

Fighters with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) raise their rifles in celebration after an operation against the Nigerian army in the Niger Delta on September 17, 2008. "Our target is to crimple the oil installations in order to force the government to a round table to solve the problem once and for all". Photo: AFP

Nigerian Militant Group Rejects President's Amnesty Offer -- The Wall Street Journal

IBADAN, Nigeria (Dow Jones)--Militants in the Niger Delta region Friday rejected Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua's renewed offer of amnesty to those who lay down their arms.

Yar'Adua renewed the offer, which he first made last month, in an address to commemorate a decade of democracy in Nigeria on Friday.

"The recently renewed amnesty offer by the Nigerian government has been hereby rejected by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta because it is ambiguous, dictatorial, and has not been tested in a test tube," the militants said in a statement.

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