The 'Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta' bomb Shell

mayo | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Tuesday December 19, 2006 02:26 by Oleophobe

"What we are fighting for is resource control and we will not stop until we achieve our objective,"

According to the Al Jazeera website : "A suspected bomb exploded at a Shell residential compound in Port Harcourt and another went off near the perimeter fence of a compound of the Italian oil company Agip" and "The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said it planned to attack strategic locations throughout the oil-rich region".

Attacks on pipelines and oil facilities have cut the West African country's usual daily output of 2.5 million barrels by about a quarter this year.