Nigeria riots after election

Nigeria’s recently elected President Goodluck Jonathan will need some of that luck to tame riots in the country. Enraged youth in the north have torched churches and homes in protest of the election. Reports have indicated dozens of deaths in the unrest.

Nigeria is a country marked with decades of violence. But international observers have called the weekend election one of the fairest in decades for the West African nation. The recently elected President has urged an end to the violence. He called on rival politicians to calm their supporters.