In Nigeria, six foreign oil workers, including one US citizen, have been released after a two-week kidnapping ordeal. Their captors, members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, are demanding more local control over oil resources and the release of political prisoners. Three other hostages — two Americans and a Britain — remain in captivity. The released American worker, Maco Hawkins, said he sympathized with his captors and harbored no ill will towards them.