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Militant youths vacate oil stations

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    Militant youths who last week occupied five oil pumping stations in north and south Isoko local government areas, near Warri in southeastern Nigeria, have vacated the sites.

    "The stations are now free and we are back at production," AFP quoted a Shell spokesman as saying. The seizure reportedly reduced Nigeria's oil production by about 50,000 barrels a day.

    The youths were protesting against the "dumping of suspected toxic waste by Shell" last year. AFP quoted an environment ministry official on Monday as saying that tests had shown that the waste was not toxic. "Government officials had since persuaded the youths to leave the sites," Shell said.

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