Militants with the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) brandish their weapons as they sail through the Niger Delta in 2008. MEND has threatened to thwart a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe. (AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)From Yahoo News/AFP:
LAGOS (AFP) – Nigeria’s best known rebel group on Saturday threatened to thwart a 10-billion-dollar trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe, but the army vowed to protect the project.
“Any money put into the project will go down the drain as we will ensure that it faces the same fate other pipelines are facing today,” the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said in an email statement.
On Friday, three African countries — Algeria, Niger and Nigeria — signed a deal in Abuja to build the more than 4,000-kilometre (2,485-mile) pipeline conveying gas destined for the European market from the Niger Delta in Nigeria, via Niger and Algeria.
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My Comment: For the past month there has been talks of truce and amnesty …. I guess this period of reconciliation has been thrown out of the window.
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