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Abuja, Nigeria

Who’s in charge? Thousands of protesters marched on the National Assembly building in the Nigerian capital this week, demanding to know who was running the country. For the past seven weeks, President Umaru Yar’Adua has been in a Saudi Arabian hospital undergoing treatment for a heart condition, and there were rumors he had died. Yar’Adua gave a BBC interview this week to assure his countrymen that he was “getting better,” but he offered no indication when he would return. In the meantime, Nigeria has been in a constitutional crisis, because Yar’Adua has not officially turned over power to the vice president. “Who can approve our military’s defense of the country, if there is an invasion?” the Vanguard newspaper asked in an editorial.

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