LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — An Eni SpA oil pipeline ruptured and caught fire as a militant group claimed responsibility for an attack in the region, their first alleged assault in months as its purported leader awaits trial on terrorism charges in South Africa.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta also threatened to attack South African interests in an email sent to journalists late Saturday night, as its alleged leader Henry Okah remains imprisoned there.
South African businesses “will pay a heavy price for the interference of (President) Jacob Zuma in the legitimate fight for justice in the Niger Delta, by its people,” the statement read. “The South African president has reduced himself to the position of a hired thug.”
South African businesses, like mobile phone carrier MTN Group Ltd. and others, have operations throughout Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation
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