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Theft hurts Nigeria's oil output but crackdown intensifies

Men walk past an abandoned illegal refinery at the creeks of Bayelsa, Nigeria on May 18, 2013. [AP Photo]

Nigeria is losing 470,000 barrels of crude oil per day to theft and pipeline vandalism, regulators say, and has now lost its status as Africa's largest crude producer to Angola.

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