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Pressure group wants foreigners out of Niger Delta

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    A militant community group has warned nationals of countries with oil interests in the troubled Niger Delta in south-eastern Nigeria to leave the area within a week, news media have reported.

    AFP reported the warning came in a message which the Federated Niger-Delta Ijaw Communities sent on Tuesday to embassies and the media in Lagos.

    Foreign oil companies operating in Nigeria include the Anglo-Dutch group Shell, Elf and Total of France, Agip of Italy, and Texaco, Mobil and Chevron of the United States.

    The warning followed an upsurge in unrest in Warri, a main delta town, where some 25 people have been killed in clashes since the end of last week between Ijaws and another local community, the Itsekiri, in what has been reported as a land dispute.

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