A Militant's Verbal Somersaults

ABUJA, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's main militant group, the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), on Sunday threatened to perpetrate attacks on Islamic institutions in the west African country from next month. The group, in an ...

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, April 23 (UPI) -- The threat came from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, a coalition of armed groups that range from political activists to criminal gangs that's waged an insurgency in the region, the ...

, virtually all newspapers in Nigeria were inundated with news of threat by Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to avenge killings by Boko Haram. According to MEND, the execution of the threat would begin from May 31, 2013 and it ...

YENAGOA, Nigeria The ambush came days after the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the main delta militant group prior to a 2009 amnesty, threatened to restart attacks in retaliation for the jailing of leader Henry Okah by a ...

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) recently signified its intention to commence bombing of mosques, hajj camps and other Islamic institutions in the country, from May 31. Spokesman of the group, Jomo Gbomo, warned the nation ...

With the fringe group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, threatening to resume its violent campaign, this time targeting religious interests, all the signs point to a country slipping into the first stages of a sectarian civil war, ...

Against the backdrop of a media message by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) that it will soon commence attacks on mosques, ex-militant leader affiliated to the group, Alhaji Asari Dokubo has cautioned that any form of ...

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday declared its readiness to launch violent attacks on mosques, hajj camps, Islamic institutions, large congregations at Islamic events and assassination of clerics that propagate ...

A faction of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, purportedly headed by Henry Okah now in jail in South Africa, has rebutted the statement threatening a plague of attacks, against Nigeria's oil facilities. The faction represented by ...