Africa
Obasanjo Heads to Senegal to Calm Tension
Dakar, February 22, 2012 - Africa's top envoy was expected in Senegal on Tuesday ahead of tense weekend polls, with the opposition hoping he can talk 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade out of seeking a third term. ... Full story
Mediator Can Be Fired - Mugabe
Harare, February 21, 2012 - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Monday that he reserves the right to disregard efforts by South African President Jacob Zuma to mediate disputes in the nation's troubled coalition government. ... Full story
Explosion in Nigeria Injures Five
Suleja, February 20, 2012 - A bomb planted near an abandoned car exploded outside a church in the middle of a worship service on Sunday near Nigeria's capital, wounding five people amid a continuing wave of violence by a radical Islamist sect, authorities and witnesses said. ... Full story
Suspected Somali Pirates Handed to Kenya For Trial
Mombasa, February 19, 2012 - Kenya accepted Saturday to try four suspected pirates from neighbouring war-torn Somalia captured by a Danish warship in the Indian Ocean, officials said. ... Full story
Underwear Bomber Appeals Life Sentence
Detroit, February 18, 2012 - Nigerian man who was given a life sentence for trying to blow up a packed jetliner using a bomb sewn into his underwear on Christmas Day 2009 has appealed the punishment. ... Full story
Islamists’ Ideas on Democracy and Faith Face Test in Tunisia
TUNIS, February 18, 2012 — The epiphany of Said Ferjani came after his poor childhood in a pious town in Tunisia, after a religious renaissance a generation ago awakened his intellect, after he plotted a coup and a torturer broke his back, and after he fled to Britain to join other Islamists seeking asylum on a passport he had borrowed from a friend. ... Full story
Nigerian 'underwear' bomber gets life in prison in US
Detroit, February 17, 2012 - A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Nigerian man to life in prison for trying to blow up a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009 with a bomb hidden in his underwear. ... Full story
Nigerian Underwear Bomber To Be sentenced in Detroit
Detroit, February 16, 2012 - A federal judge is set to decide on Thursday if the Nigerian man who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit in 2009 will spend the rest of his life in prison. ... Full story
Tunisia Says It Cracks Islamist "Terrorist" Unit
Tunis, February 14, 2012 - Tunisia has broken up a "terrorist organisation" with links to al Qaeda and arrested 12 members, some of whom had received military training in Libya and were seeking to set up an Islamic state, Interior Minister Ali Larayed said on Monday. ... Full story
Kabila Aide Dies, Minister Hurt In DRC Plane Crash
Kinshasa, February 13, 2012 - Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila's chief adviser was killed and his finance minister injured in an airplane crash near the eastern town of Bukavu on Sunday, government officials said. ... Full story
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