19 hostages, including several foreign workers, were kidnapped from an oil rig in Nigeria

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Nineteen hostages – including two US nationals, two French nationals, two Indonesian nationals, and a Canadian national taken from an Afren oil rig; eight Nigerians abducted from an ExxonMobil platform; and four others – were freed during a counter-terrorism operation by Joint Task Force (JTF) personnel in an unspecified area of the Niger Delta region on 17 November. A JTF spokesperson claimed that former Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) commanders had helped co-ordinate the operation.