Sentences with phrase «of armed militants»

A blockade of pipelines at the hands of armed militants has shut down production at three Libyan oil fields, including the biggest one, Sharara.

Not exact matches

Among those who took a turn at the microphone was Nezar Hamze, South Florida executive director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, viewed as a leading activist organization by the Muslim community and as an arm of militant Islam by its critics.

Under that call to arms, ISIS militants have rampaged through Iraq, forcing Muslims, Christians and Yazidis to convert to their brand of Islam, pay a protection tax or be killed.

Gun violence is common in parts of Nigeria's oil - producing Niger Delta region, where various militant groups take up arms against multinational companies to demand a share of oil proceeds.

«Are you aware of the number of militants they [South Africans] had trained, what if they trained these militants in badges (sic), can we link the increase (sic) rate in arm (sic) robbery to this training offered by mercenaries, can we link the recent cases of contract killings to the training; are there young people in the country already trained by these men and what are they actually doing with the skills acquired.»

«Very credible intelligence reaching us has it that a lot of the armed robbery and killing of our hardworking police officers is being done by militant goons associated with the NPP», the NDC National Chairman alleged.

The militants were led by Ogailo Iborry Young (aka O.C) to the Collection and Documentation of Arms Centre in Ajapa community in Ese - Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State.

By its conception, design and intendment, BSS is the militant arm of IPOB, infested with all manner of hardened criminals and deviants.

The militant leader traced the source of their arms to the Ijaw / Ilaje crisis of 1998/1999, blaming it on joblessness, poverty and government neglect.

It read, «Following consistent successful operation against militants and criminals by Operation DELTA SAFE, available information from Sector 4 in Cross River State indicates that Bakassi Strike Force militants, led by one Mr Benjamin Ene has expressed unreserved willingness to lay down arms and have contacted the Department of State Service in Cross River State through the State Government's appointed rapporteur on amnesty to signify their readiness to hold talks on amnesty with the relevant authorities.

My concerns as a Northern Muslim is how come Fulani people have now taken over the job of kidnapping which prior to the arrival of President Buhari's administration was common with militants in the Niger Delta and occasionally armed robbers in the South - East and South - West?

The Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has said he was aware of the protest of the repentant militants who have willingly dropped their arms and ammunitions...

«(IRBIL, Iraq — The stage was set Friday for a major sectarian confrontation in Iraq after the government and the country's most powerful Shiite cleric implored civilians to take up arms against Sunni militants — a move that would partially plug the ranks of the decimated security forces with religiously motivated volunteers.

The statement reads, «The Nigerian Army has set up a high powered committee to investigate allegations made by former Chief Of Army Staff, Lieutenant - General Theophilus Danjuma, that soldiers are colliding with armed militants to kill innocent citizens across the country.

Imohe raised alarm that Nigeria is awash with SALW and said that the implementation of the Amnesty programme was poorly carried out in that the militants might have returned knocked out weapons in exchange for funds with which some might have likely used to purchase more sophisticated arms.

Speaking on behalf of the governor, the Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi, who toured two of the arms collection points in Igbokoda and Igbekebo in the Ilaje and Ese Odo local government areas of the state, commended the militants for surrendering their weapons.

Armed Forces on alert over militancy in Niger Delta — CDS Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonishakin, has said that troops have been placed on high alert to combat any militant attack in the Niger Delta especially on oil and gas platforms.

The president however called on members of Boko Haram to lay down their arms and embrace dialogue so that government would extend an olive branch similar to what it did to the militants in the Niger Delta region of the country.

And then the «Fat Underground» emerged, a militant feminist - allied arm of the movement that called for violence against the oppressors of the fat people.

Some employees of an international arms dealer go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy / horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).

Their lives became points of leverage as their armed captors» demand that Israel free jailed Palestinian militants was rejected, and the divided Israeli government debated how to pull off a seemingly impossible commando mission to rescue them.

January 6, 2016 • Armed militants occupying a natural refuge in a remote part of Oregon say they will stay until the land is under local control.

Armed militants occupying the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service refuge in Burns, Ore., say they're protesting the federal government and how its Bureau of Land Management treats Western ranchers.

January 9, 2016 • There's growing concern among former federal land managers that the government's inaction against one Nevada rancher is helping the cause of armed anti-government militants elsewhere in the West.

The most militant of misanthropes will hate «Million Dollar Arm» because that's what they do.

In Elektra KB's solo exhibition at BravinLee programs and Mario Pfeifer's collaboration with rappers Flatbush ZOMBIES at the Goethe Institut, artists literally take up arms in increasingly militant performances of «otherness».