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In Nigeria, the main militant group in the Delta region The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta- MEND, has announced that it will observe a sixty-day unilateral ceasefire.
This follows the release by the government earlier of its leader Henry Okah, as part of an amnesty pact.
Mr.Okah had been charged with treason and gun running.
Over the years MEND has carried out a series of attacks on oil installations in the Delta region which has reduced Nigeria's crude oil output by more than 30 percent.
The latest being an audacious attack Monday on an oil jetty in the commercial capital Lagos.
The BBC's Chris Ewokor spoke with Henry Okah in Abuja hours before the ceasefire announcement.
He began by asking Mr. Okah how it felt to be free again.
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