Nigeria rebels claim attacks, announce "hurricane"

Nigeria's main armed group MEND announced early Thursday it had carried out two attacks on the army and again advised oil groups operating in the southern Niger Delta to evacuate their staff before the "arrival of an imminent hurricane."
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta had said in a statement Wednesday: "Oil companies operating in the region are advised to evacuate their staff within the next 24 hours to avoid them being part of the statistics of an emerging civil war."