Witness describes attempt on exiled Rwandan (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
AP - Days before an exiled Rwandan army general was shot and wounded in South Africa, two of the men charged in the shooting were plotting another attempt on his life, a witness testified Wednesday.

US troops now in 4 African countries to fight LRA (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
AP - U.S. troops helping in the fight against a brutal rebel group called the Lord's Resistance Army are now deployed in four Central African countries, the top U.S. special operations commander for Africa said Wednesday.

Leaders meet in UK over fragile Somalia']);" href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120222/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_somalia" target="_blank">Leaders meet in UK over fragile Somalia's future (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012

Leaders meet in UK over fragile Somalia']);" href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120222/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_somalia">AP - Somalia's fragile leadership, its neighbors and international allies are meeting in London in the hope of speeding the troubled east African nation's progress toward a stable government and containing the threat from Islamic militants who some fear could export terrorism to Europe and the United States.

Witness: Explosions rock northern Nigeria city (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012

AP - Multiple explosions rocked a highway checkpoint in Nigeria's second-largest city, witnesses said Wednesday, just over a month after a radical Islamist sect claimed an attack there that left at least 185 people dead.

UN votes to increase African force in Somalia (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012

AP - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to authorize an increase in the African Union force in Somalia from 12,000 to about 17,700 and expand its areas of operation in an effort to intensify pressure on al-Shabab militants who recently joined al-Qaida.

NH jury being picked in Rwanda genocide case (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
AP - Jury selection is under way in federal court in the case of a New Hampshire woman charged with lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

Libya court orders civil trial for Gaddafi "loyalists" (Reuters) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
Reuters - A Libyan military court ruled on Wednesday that 50 people accused of fighting for Muammar Gaddafi and helping a mass jail break by alleged supporters of the deposed leader should be freed and tried instead in a civilian court.

Mubarak's trial leaves Egypt with open wounds (Reuters) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
Reuters - Mohamed Moustafa Morsy had to sneak out of his home to join the protests against Hosni Mubarak last year, afraid his parents would stop him if they knew where he was going.

Fire at Egypt oil refinery kills 4 workers (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
AP - The director of an oil refinery says four of his Egyptian workers died as they tried to put out a huge fire that erupted at the plant's complex in the port city of Suez.