More than 100 people have been killed in bomb attacks and
gunfights in Nigeria's second largest city Kano, a senior
local government security source told Reuters, in the
deadliest coordinated strike claimed by Islamist sect Boko
Haram to date.
Residents fearfully left their homes to bury their dead in
northeast Nigeria following a series of coordinated attacks
that killed at least 67 people and left a new police
headquarters in ruins, government offices burned and symbols
of state power destroyed.
Muslim youths hacked a Christian family of eight to death in
Nigeria's volatile Plateau state on Sunday, local officials
said, continuing a week of violence that has pitted gangs
from the two faiths against each other and civilians.
Last Sunday, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan visited
the scene of last week's bombing at the United Nations office
in Abuja, the capital, and said the sort of things that
presidents must say on such occasions.
Men riding motorcycles have thrown bombs into outdoor beer
gardens in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 25 people
in attacks bearing striking similarities to others carried
out by a radical Islamic sect in the region, police said.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has won the oil-rich
country's presidential election, as severe rioting sweeping
across the Muslim north demonstrated the religious and ethnic
tensions still dividing Africa's most populous nation.
There are notable differences between Woodrow Wilson, the
28th president of the United States, and Umaru Yar'Adua, the
current president (more or less) of Nigeria.
The killers showed no mercy: They didn't spare women and
children, or even a 4-day-old baby, from their machetes.
Women wailed in the streets as a dump truck carried dozens of
bodies past burned-out homes toward a mass grave.
