At least 300 die in political fighting in Nigeria. Fighting has calmed in Jos, Nigeria, after days of clashes between supporters of political parties left hundreds dead, reports CNN. Crowds of people, upset that the results of a local election (the first in Jos in over 10 years) were not posted yet gathered Thursday near ballot collation centers. Riots hit the area the next morning and after local leaders made pleas for peace on Saturday, the streets were mostly clear by that afternoon. At least 300 dead bodies were brought to the local mosque for burial, according to the imam, and it’s likely the final death toll will be a lot higher since many Christians are believed to have died during the clashes as well. Police arrested hundreds of people since the riots started, they say. Fighting between the groups of supporters fell along religious and ethnic lines and the country is no stranger to religious violence. Clashes between Muslims and Christians in 2004 led to 700 people being killed in Plateau State and rioting in Jos in 2001 killed more than 1,000.  In a country where Muslims live in the north and Christians in the south, the city of Jos lies in the middle of the nation and in many areas Muslims and Christians live side by side. After the streets were calmed, hundreds of women and children set out in search of water while thousands took shelter in schools and army barracks.

Zimbabwe drought leaves hundreds dead. Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare, is suffering from an extreme water shortage, reports the BBC. This comes as the nation is suffering from an outbreak of cholera, which has killed 425 people in the last few months. The disease has also infected 11,000 people in the nation since August. Cholera is spread by water that is contaminated and a lack of water purification chemicals is the reason behind the water shortage, local authorities said. The nation’s Health Minister David Parirenyatwa suggested citizens stop shaking hands to stop the spread. “I want to stress the issue shaking hands. Although it’s part of our tradition to shake hands, it’s high time people stopped shaking hands,” he said.

Nobody knows why a family’s two pit bulls blasted through the back door, mauled an infant girl to death and chewed up her grandmother, who tried to get her to safety. The grandmother, who survived the attack, had been baby-sitting at the time, she told Las Vegas Police. It appears that the dogs burst through a screen door of the North Las Vegas house and began attacking the 4-month-old, who was sitting in a stroller, police said.  “They just went right for the little girl,” North Las Vegas police Chief Joseph Forti told The Las Vegas Review-Journal. Grandma said she tried to “take the girl into another room, but the dogs forced their way in before she could close the door.” When police arrived, the dogs were still acting viciously, they said. Police shot and killed the pit bulls.

Oprah stays political. In recent weeks, rumors have surfaced that there’s an Oprah rebellion afoot. Word is that Oprah Winfrey’s announcement that she would not be allowing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to appear on her show, has sparked a backlash from women who say the Barack Obama supporter should provide equal time. But an impending insurrection doesn’t seem to be causing the talk-show diva to be less political. Today, Oprah will dedicate her show to a Senate bill targeting child predators, according to a release issued Friday by Chicago-based Harpo Productions. “What you are going to see is going to shock you to the core, but I’m asking you to please not turn away because this is happening in our country, to our children, in the United States every day,” said Winfrey, who says that show will highlight the “extent and pervasiveness of child pornography trafficking in America.”  The release says that Winfrey will ask viewers to contact their senators about U.S. Senate Bill 1738, the Protect Our Children Act. The top is nothing new for Winfrey, herself a victim of child abuse. In 1991, she testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in support of a national database of convicted child abusers. The hearing led to the signing of the so-called “Oprah Bill” in 1993. Her “Oprah’s Child Predator Watch List” has resulted in the capture of nine child predators, according to Harpo.

The county chief is being accused of hatching a very un-American plot

The head of the Michigan’s Macomb County Republican Party, which is in a key swing county in the upcoming presidential election, denied charges late Thursday that he had hatched a plot to block residents with foreclosed homes from voting in November. Read more about the alleged plot at BET.com/News.