Open Borders Uganda Is the Most Refugee-Friendly Country in the World
Upon arrival in Uganda, refugees receive a work permit, 900 square meters of land and permission to remain forever. How is the small country in the middle of Africa […]
Did you know that Aga Khan Development Network provides electricity to 10 million people in developing countries?
by Nimira Dewji Posted on September 14, 2017 Côte d’Ivoire – Azito Energie Kenya – Kipevu II Power Project Tajikistan and Afghanistan – Pamir Energy Uganda – Bujagali Hydroelectric Project Pakistan […]
Stemming the Flow Why Europe’s Migrant Strategy Is an Illusion
Europe hopes that the fates of African migrants will soon be decided at facilities in Chad or Niger. It is a wonderful idea, but also a misleading illusion. In truth, Europe’s primary focus is on shutting down the Mediterranean route. By Mirco Keilberth, Peter Müller and Maximilian Popp […]
266 Ahmadis among a community of 2,000 have faced bogus prosecution over the past 15 months in Algeiria
Source: huffingtonpost.com Algeria rejects a Spanish ambassador and draws fire from Human Rights Watch over treatment of minorities. Madrid tried to send José Maria Ridao, a formed ambassador to UNESCO, to represent Spain, but Algiers slammed him for his history of visits and lectures in Morocco. Meanwhile, an HRW communique calls […]
Women Inherit Less Under Islam. One Country’s Changing the Rules
Source: Bloomberg By Jihen Laghmari, Caroline Alexander and Tarek El-Tablawy Halima Ben Diafi says her brothers spent their summer enjoying Tunisia’s Mediterranean coast while she was stuck in the capital, […]
‘A great project for all Egyptians’: Egypt to repair synagogue in city of eight Jews
Source: The Guardian By Ruth Michaelson in Alexandria Alexandria’s historic synagogue has very few visitors. In a city once home to almost 25,000 Jews, Alexandria’s Jewish community is now said to number […]
Malta-based charity group suspends Mediterranean migrant rescues
Reuters International This content was published on September 4, 2017 FILE PHOTO: Migrants disembark from the Malta-based NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) ship Phoenix after it arrived with migrants and a corpse on board, in Catania on the island of Sicily, Italy, May 6, 2017. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi/ File […]
Book Review: Memoirs of a Muhindi: Fleeing East Africa for the West
by Mansoor Ladha In August 1972, Idi Amin demanded that all Asians exit Uganda in 90 days. In the neighbouring countries of Tanzania and Kenya, Asians – or Muhindi as they were known – found themselves on edge. In his second book, Calgary-based author Mansoor Ladha recounts this experience, and […]
TEDGlobal: Africa needs more engineers and makers
Source : BBC News By Jane Wakefield Africa needs more engineers and makers, the head of Gearbox – Nairobi’s leading maker-space – has told the TEDGlobal conference in Tanzania. Kamau […]
Ahmadiyya Mission Ghana: Islam must be a unifying force for all nations
Source: GhanaWeb The Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana, has warned Muslim youth to stay away from lawlessness to sustain peace in various parts of the country. Speaking at the 38th Annual Conference of Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Organization Ghana, in Accra, Ameer and Missionary-in-Charge of Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission Ghana, Alhaji Maulvi Mohammed […]
Algeria’s Ahmadis, an ‘Israeli plot,’ forced to worship behind closed doors
Pacifist Muslim sect, which operates freely in Israel, is accused by Algerian government minister of working with Israel to destabilize country BY AMAL BELALLOUFI August 25, 2017, A member of Algeria’s small Ahmadi community sits at a house in Tilpasi, west of Algiers, near a photo of Mirza Ghulam […]
Concerns over suspicious cult in Algeria
August 22, 2017 | Published in: Africa, Algeria, News Karakaria sect in Algeria [Echoroukonline.com] August 22, 2017 at 3:40 pm Imams and sheikhs in Algeria have issued warnings about a […]
The future of Islamism: Can political Islam make it in the modern world?
Source: The Economist The auguries are mixed. “DEAD, dying or detained.” That is how a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt describes the state of his comrades in what […]
Glimpses into the life of a Global Nomad, Part Ten
A look into the life of Rafiq A. Tschannen, your Associate Chief Editor of The Muslim Times. (Benghazi and back to Amman, and on to Switzerland and Indonesia) Libya At […]
Aga Khan “Prince” of Development | Jeune Afrique
Source: Translated from Jeune Afrique By Par Marion Douet and Nadoun Coulibaly His Highness the Aga Khan, spiritual leader to millions of Muslim, delivers the Jodidi Lecture, at Harvard University, on Thursday, Nov. 12, […]
Fighting a Killer Disease: New Malaria Drug could be ‘Game Changer’
Source: Financial Times and SwissInfo.ch By Clive Cookson and Science Editor The first new malaria drug to emerge for 20 years is beginning clinical trials in nine countries across Africa […]
Turkey fulfills wish of Ghanaian villager dreaming of Hajj
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL August 18, 2017 Al-Hassan Abdullah, a poor Ghanaian villager whose story went viral on Turkish social media when he asked a TV crew if […]
Empowering Africa’s humanitarians
Aug 20,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré The scale of human suffering currently engulfing drought-stricken Somalia is almost indescribable. It is difficult to find words to convey the devastation and misery gripping the country, now in the midst of a prolonged period of record-low rainfall. I watched emaciated herds of […]
Glimpses into the life of a Global Nomad – Part Five
(A look into the life of Rafiq A. Tschannen – Associate Chief Editor, The Muslim Times) – on to Ghana and Nigeria). After 3 years in Afghanistan I thought I […]
Hell on Earth: Libyan Camps for Refugees Are Not the Answer
There are many who would like to see migrants sheltered in reception camps in Libya. But a recent report compiled by European Union diplomats who visited the country reveals that […]