Calling Off Truce, MEND Threatens Attacks

The main rebel group in Nigeria, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has called off its three-month-old unilateral cease-fire, reports the Daily Independent (Lagos).

The group threatened to carry out an "all-out onslaught" and warned oil companies in the Niger Delta to be ready for attacks on their facilities and personnel.

In late October, the MEND signed an accord with the federal government as part of an amnesty program that had been embraced by...