Oil-Region Rebels Reach Accord With President
The leader of militia fighters threatening to widen a battle for control of Nigeria’s oil-rich south said he agreed to a tentative deal with President Olusegun Obasanjo to end fighting that has roiled global oil markets.
Mujahid Dokubo-Asari said the president gave “an express understanding that no troops will attack our people. And as long as they don’t attack, we won’t attack.”
Dokubo-Asari had threatened to widen his campaign to control the Niger Delta region and warned that his forces would target foreign oil workers.
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