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| Nigeria militants offer ceasefire | Nigeria militants offer ceasefire |
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| The main rebel group in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region has pledged a one-month ceasefire to allow the new government to create a peace plan. | The main rebel group in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region has pledged a one-month ceasefire to allow the new government to create a peace plan. |
| A spokesman for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) said they would suspend attacks on oil installations for one month. | |
| Newly sworn-in President Umaru Yar'Adua has said the crisis is a top priority and has called for a ceasefire. | Newly sworn-in President Umaru Yar'Adua has said the crisis is a top priority and has called for a ceasefire. |
| Attacks in the Delta have led to a drop of more than 25% in oil production. | Attacks in the Delta have led to a drop of more than 25% in oil production. |
| Mend also said it had released six foreign oil workers kidnapped from a Chevron facility on the Pennington River on 1 May. | |
| In its statement, Mend said it hoped President Yar'Adua would take advantage of its ceasefire "to ruminate on positive and realistic measures towards a just peace in the Delta". |