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...block, hours after registering his Liberal Russia Party to compete in December's parliamentary elections. Yushenkov's colleagues accused the government of inaction in the face of a wave of politically motivated crime. He is the second senior party member killed in nine months. Poll Protest NIGERIA President Olusegun Obasanjo's People's Democratic Party won a majority in both houses of parliament. Opposition parties rejected the results, claiming the election was marred by widespread abuses. The legislative elections and last weekend's presidential ballot - which Obasanjo was favored to win - are seen as a key test of Nigerian democracy...
When Nigeria chooses a President this weekend, Olusegun Obasanjo will likely win a second term, despite a lackluster first. Of the 19 other candidates, only Muhammadu Buhari, like Obasanjo an ex-military ruler, poses a real threat. But who wins may matter less than how this vote happens. Neither candidate has done much on the campaign trail to bridge the religious and regional divides that split Nigeria's 120 million people...
...anything, they've played them up. Obasanjo, a Christian southerner, has derided Buhari, a Muslim from the north, as a champion of the Islamic law now in force in several states. Buhari reportedly told Muslims not to vote for non-Muslims. (He told TIME he was "quoted out of context" and that opponents spread the story in "desperation.") The trash talk has helped to fuel political violence, which has killed 10,000 since...
...tension could worsen yet. Buhari has repeatedly warned backers that "politicians carry out [vote] rigging," raising fears of a disputed result. In Nigeria, a civilian government has never successfully transferred power to another. Obasanjo said last week that a failure this time would be "a disaster of monumental proportion." That he even suggested failure as a possibility shows how far Nigeria still...
...ACCUSED. OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, 65, Nigerian President; of ordering soldiers to massacre civilians; by lawmakers from his own ruling party, in Abuja, Nigeria. The accusation is the latest in a series of attempts by the legislature to impeach the beleaguered leader. Obasanjo, a former general whose election in 1999 brought an end to more than 15 years of military rule, has described the impeachment efforts as "a joke taken a little...