From The Washington Times:
With oil prices at a six-month high and gasoline prices not far behind, energy traders are pointing a finger at rising violence in Nigeria's ethnically driven civil war.
A wave of attacks on oil wells, platforms and pipelines by rebels in Nigeria's Niger Delta has left the country's output at about half its maximum level of 3.2 million barrels a day, the government's Minister of State for Petroleum Odein Ajumogobia told reporters in the capital, Abuja.
The spike in attacks follows a major military offensive in the resource-rich delta, where ethnic Ijaw militants are fighting for greater autonomy and a bigger share of oil revenues,.
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Nigeria Governor Pledges Security Despite Militant Attacks -- Voice of America
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Nigeria: The Humanitarian Crisis in the Niger Delta -- All Africa
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