About that “ceasefire” in Nigeria
Just hours after Nigeria’s Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) announced its 60-day truce, promising to prepare for negotiations, ("…wise men and women will be put together after consultations with relevant stakeholders. They will speak on our behalf and convey our demands to government.")… they may be changing their minds. E-mailed to this ...
Just hours after Nigeria's Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) announced its 60-day truce, promising to prepare for negotiations, ("...wise men and women will be put together after consultations with relevant stakeholders. They will speak on our behalf and convey our demands to government.")... they may be changing their minds.
Just hours after Nigeria’s Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) announced its 60-day truce, promising to prepare for negotiations, ("…wise men and women will be put together after consultations with relevant stakeholders. They will speak on our behalf and convey our demands to government.")… they may be changing their minds.
E-mailed to this blogger from spokesman alias Jomo Gbomo at 7:49am EST:
Barely 12 hours into our ceasefire, the military Joint Task Force has dispatched seven gun boats with heavily armed troops from Warri and are headed towards one of our camps located around the Delta/Ondo state border.If this information from a very reliable source within the JTF happens to be true, the ceasefire will be called off with immediate effect.We are monitoring the armada and sincerely hope that the planned attack will be converted to a war exercise.
Elizabeth Dickinson is International Crisis Group’s senior analyst for Colombia.
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