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 ONITSHA, Nigeria (AP) - A body smolders in the road after Muslim-Christian clashes. Armed men ply the waterways of the Niger Delta, kidnapping oil workers and attacking pipelines.
Violence often erupts in Nigeria, but the latest unrest comes at a particularly difficult political time: elections are scheduled for 2007, and the transition from military despotism to multiparty democracy is at stake.
Olusegun Obasanjo — first elected president in 1999 — has not ruled out asking lawmakers to change the constitution and allow him to seek a third term.
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