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Protesters vacate oil facilities

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    Militant Ijaw protesters have ended their occupation of three crude oil production facilities of Royal/Dutch Shell near the southern Nigerian oil town of Warri, the French news agency, AFP, reported company officials as saying on Saturday.

    The protesters had stopped the flow of 40,000 barrels per day of crude oil to back demands for jobs and amenities for their impoverished communities on whose land the facilities are located.

    "We have resolved the matter. We are now back in operation," AFP quoted a Shell spokesman as saying. The militant youths were said to have left on Thursday after appeals by community leaders and government officials.

    Youths from impoverished communities in the Niger Delta - which includes Warri - have often disrupted oil production to draw attention to pollution, unemployment and neglect in the area, which produces most of Nigeria's petroleum.

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