Nigeria: Group promises to resume pipeline attacks

Nigeria's most high-profile armed group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), said late on Monday it will shortly resume attacks on oil pipelines in the south of the country. "In pursuance of our pledge to cripple the Nigerian crude oil export industry, we will resume with attacks on pipelines around the entire Niger Delta, in the coming days," Mend said in a statement emailed to the media.