Nigerian President re-elected, Violence in the North continues - voice of America

Scott Stearns. Dakar (Senegal), on April 18, 2011 a man jumps during a protest in northern city of Kano of Nigeria where running battles erupted between soldiers and demonstrators on April 18, 2011.

Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan President won re-election in a vote which provoked riots in the Northern States of the country which has supported its main opponent.

The results of all the 36 States of Nigeria, Chairman of the electoral commission Attahiru Jega announced that President Jonathan is the winner.

"Goodluck e. Jonathan of the PDP, have certified the requirements of the Act and scored the most number of votes is hereby declared the winner and his return elected," said Jega.

Voice of President Jonathan $ 22.5 million is nearly twice the number of second place finisher, former military leader Muhammadu Buhari, who won a little more than 12 million votes.? President Jonathan avoids an election tour, winning a quarter of the votes in at least 24 States.

That provision is intended to ensure that a Nigerian President has some national support and is not simply a regional candidate.? But a large part of the voice seems to have broken down on regional lines, with President Jonathan win the South and Mr. Buhari, winning the North.

The first results showing Mr. Jonathan head led to riots in some parts of the predominantly Muslim north.? In Kaduna State, home to the Vice President Namadi Sambo was burned and a 24-hour curfew was imposed after a prison was searched and detained released.

In the capital of Kano State, security forces fired shots in the air as young people who throw stones took the streets and chanted support for Mr. Buhari. Human Rights Watch, said at least 60 people have been killed in violence linked to elections since the first day of the month.

In his acceptance speech, President Jonathan said that his Government is taking all necessary measures to ensure the lives and property of all Nigerians.

"I forbid our leaders political and religious in their usual sense of patriotism to call on their followers reject all acts of violence and bitterness", stated President Jonathan. "As I have always said, political ambition of person not worth any Nigerian blood."

Mr. Jonathan thanked God and Nigeria's voters the opportunity to lead the country.

"In this election, we have found our unity as a nation under God, we reiterated our faith in democracy and emphasized our determination to fully to join the free world where only the will of the people is the basis of governance."? We will not let you down. ", he said.

The President Jonathan said he only there is no victor and not defeated as Nigeria is revealed to the world that it is capable of holding free, fair and credible elections.

"It is a victory for the livelihoods of our democracy, a victory which should celebrate all Nigerians - regardless of creed, ethnic origin or State of origin," says jonathan. "It is a triumph for our common destiny as a people with ideals shared dreams and hopes."

Mr. Jonathan congratulated the other candidates and said that the country is waiting for their continued leadership and commitment to build a nation.? The President said Nigeria must move away from partisan battlefields and find a national field of building a prosperous nation.

18-04-2011 Adio Samdio (Nigeria)

We thank God for the election of Nigeria, it was so peaceful.

19-04-2011 alwan m.mazen (USA).

It is important now the percentage of Muslims and Christians there before considering if there was any dishonesty in this election, or not.

19-04-2011 Maikudi kwajaffa (Nigeria)

The presidential election just concluded in Nigeria has been the most successful, free, fair and credible election ever conducted in the history of the nation. The opposition party should accept the result of good faith and look forward to the next provides in 2015. Policy is not a "do or die" business as violence erupted in the northern part of the country which led to the loss of many lives and properties. God bless Nigeria.

19-04-2011 zhu (China)

Riots is bad; people are victim

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ID of the detained North American Korea

Tensions between the Korea of the North and West were enriched in recent years due to concerns on the nuclear program of Pyongyang.Jun Young Su was arrested in November 2010, KCNA reportsSources said that the prisoner is a Korean American State Department businessmanThe works on the case of the Embassy of Sweden in Korea PyongyangNorth a selected number of Americans in recent years

(CNN) - the Korea of the North has identified an American man detained, who had been arrested the year last for "committing a crime"against the nation seclusion, according to the State media."."

"U.S. citizen Jun Young Su was arrested in November 2010 and has since been studied by a relevant body to commit a crime against (North Korea) after you have entered it", the KCNA news agency reported Thursday. "He admitted his current crime of inquiry".

KCNA did not provide details on the nature of the alleged crime.

Two representatives of the Department of State, speaking provided it be not identified told CNN Tuesday that the man is a Korean American businessman. One of the sources stated that the businessman had a visa to enter the North Korea.

The State Department works in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, said the officials. The United States urges the authorities of North Korea, through the Swedish officials, to free the man for humanitarian reasons.

Sweden represents the interests of the Korea of North America, because the United States and the North Korea have no diplomatic relations.

Swedes were granted consular access to human and visited him, officials said. Swedish officials require regular visits, officials said.

CNN, a Swedish official in Stockholm has confirmed that the Embassy in Pyongyang is working on the case.

The sources refused to provide additional information due to privacy.

North Korea retained many Americans in recent years, increased levels of tension in what is already a rocky relationship between Pyongyang and Washington.

In 2010, former President Jimmy Carter helped secure the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes, an American citizen who had been sentenced to a fine of nearly $ 600,000 and sentenced to eight years of forced labour over the border to China North Korea.

Gomes, who tried to commit suicide in North Korean custody, was considered a Christian activist.

Two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who had entered the North Korea in March 2009 and have been arrested and sentenced to 12 years of forced labour, were released in August 2009 after an intervention by the former President of the United States Bill Clinton.

Tensions between the Korea in North and West were enriched in recent years due in part to concerns over Pyongyang nuclear development program. The United States and the Korea of the South held military exercises joint in February, despite the Korea of warning North to the South did not perform the exercises, calling a provocation and threatening to engulf Seoul in "a sea of flames".

Korea of the South accused the North of the torpedoing and sinking one of its warships in March 2010, killing 46 marine and last November, the Korea of the North, to the island of Yeonpyeong, killing two South Korean marines and two civilians.CNN Elise Labott and Paula Hancocks contributed to this report

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American detained in North Korea

American detained in North KoreaNEW: Sources say that the detainee is a Korean American State Department businessmanThe is working on the case of the Embassy of Sweden in Korea PyongyangNorth retained many Americans over the past years

(CNN) - a US man was detained in Northern Korea, two representatives of the State Department told CNN.

Diplomatic sources speaking provided it be not identified, said that the man is a Korean American businessman. One of the sources stated that the businessman had a visa to enter the North Korea.

The State Department works in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, said the officials. The United States urges the North Korean authorities, through the Swedish free the man for humanitarian reasons.

Sweden represents the interests of the Korea of North America, because the United States and the North Korea have no diplomatic relations.

Swedes were granted consular access to human and visited him, officials said. The Swedish require regular visits, the officials said.

CNN, a Swedish official in Stockholm has confirmed that the Embassy in Pyongyang is working on the case.

The sources refused to provide additional information due to privacy.

North Korea retained many Americans in recent years, increased levels of tension in what is already a rocky relationship between Pyongyang and Washington.

In 2010, former President Jimmy Carter helped secure the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes, an American citizen who had been sentenced to a fine of nearly $ 600,000 and sentenced to eight years of forced labour over the border to China North Korea.

Gomes, who tried to commit suicide in North Korean custody, was considered a Christian activist.

Two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who had entered the North Korea in March 2009 and have been arrested and sentenced to 12 years of forced labour, were released in August 2009 after an intervention by the former President of the United States Bill Clinton.

Tensions between the Korea in North and West were enriched in recent years due in part to concerns over Pyongyang nuclear development program. The United States and the Korea of the South held military exercises joint in February, despite the Korea of warning North to the South did not perform the exercises, calling a provocation and threatening to engulf Seoul in "a sea of flames".

Korea of the South accused the North of the torpedoing and sinking one of its warships in March 2010, killing 46 marine and last November, the Korea of the North, to the island of Yeonpyeong, killing two South Korean marines and two civilians.CNN's Paula Hancocks contributed to this report.

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Nigerians begin voting; Blast hits polling station in the town of North - CNN International

People holding a poster with portraits of candidate presidential retired Major-General Mohammadu Buhari and listier Pastor Tunde Bakare during a rally in Lagos on April 6.New: No deaths have been reported in the explosionThere have been riots, bombings and assassinations before the electionsNigerians attacks are voting Saturday for the House and the seatsThe elections put the legitimacy of Nigeria on the line

ibadan, Nigeria (cnn) , an explosion shook polling in a town in northeastern Nigeria as Africa's most populous nation began Saturday to vote in elections marred by violence and delays.

The explosion occurred at Maiduguri, the spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency Yushau Shuaib said. No deaths have been reported. the number of injuries was yet unknown.

Also Shuaib in Maiduguri, armed youths has defined a bright Government building, said.

A new head of election promised "free and fair" elections this year, but the election has already been ruined by attacks in bombings, murders and the logistical problems that have delayed the vote. Concerns are that continued violence could derail the vote total.

Nigerians began to vote Saturday for 360 seats in house of representatives and 109 seats in the Senate. Voting structure offset will make their return to the polls Saturday next to vote for a President and the following Saturday for a vote of Governors.

Despite domestic and international pressure, Electoral Commission of Nigeria was forced to delay the elections by a week after a logistical disaster of the country - of many materials to vote was not yet in the country until the day of the election and party logos were missing from ballots.

This is a huge setback, reminiscent of the problems of Nigeria's 2007 election, described by the European Union as the worst he had seen anywhere in the world with rampant vote-rigging, violence, theft of ballot boxes and intimidation.

The legitimacy of the country now stands on the three towers of polling stations.

On the eve of the vote, a bomb exploded in the Office of the independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja, in central Nigeria, officials said.

An official of the Government, which was not authorized to speak on the record, said on CNN eight people died in the attack.

Shuaib said that more than seven people were seriously injured.

"We condemn this cowardly and despicable, action which seems designed to instill fear in the Nigerians and paralyze their aspirations for a peaceful and credible election," the President of the electoral commission, Attahiru Jega, said in a statement. "Continue our deep sympathy to the families of all these young Nigerians who lost their lives or were injured."

Human Rights Watch estimates that at least 85 people have been killed in political violence so far.

As the country's most populous of Africa and its largest oil producer, Nigeria is important. Yet, despite its huge oil wealth, 80% of the population lives on less than $ 2 a day, according to the United Nations.

"Make no mistake: the test of honour is inevitably collective for all Nigerians,"the independent National Electoral Commission, said in a recent statement. "It is our national honour in the game and our relevance in the Affairs of the modern world, renamed. ?

Separately Friday, one man was killed and another seriously injured in an explosion in the city of Kaduna North, state news reported.

Police rushed to the scene and found not unexploded dynamite, according to the Commissioner of Police John Haruna Kaduna State, voice of Nigeria reported. They found more dynamite in a house belonging to he injured man, said the point of sale.

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