LAGOS, Nigeria: Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in Sunday for a full four-year term as president of Nigeria and is now faced with the challenge of uniting a country that saw deadly postelection violence despite what observers called the fairest vote in more than a decade.
Hours after the ceremony, a series of bomb blasts at an army barracks in Bauchi in the country's northeast killed at least five people, according to a police official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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