Southern Africa’s drought leaves millions hungry
Source: Al Jazeera About 14 million people in Southern Africa are facing hunger because of last year’s poor harvest, caused by the El Nino weather pattern, the World Food Programme […]
23 Dead in a luxury hotel in Burkina Faso: Finding solutions to the menace of terrorism
Source: BBC At least 23 people of 18 different nationalities are now known to have died after Islamist militants attacked a luxury hotel in Burkina Faso. Al-Qaeda militants attacked the […]
Burkina Faso hotel siege: Battle rages for control with at least 20 dead
Video: Security forces working to free hostages, with a reported 63 evacuated so far French gendarmes tend to a wounded man in the surrounding of the hotel Splendide and the café Cappuccino durinImage Credit: AFP Vehicles on fire outside Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.Image Credit: REUTERS Published: 08:54 January […]
2011-2016: Arab dashed hopes, opened eyes
Jan 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Many analysts this week have marked the five years since the fall of former Tunisian president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali, the first of several Arab dictators who were toppled from office by a wave of spontaneous street demonstrations across Arab […]
E-learning for Africa held back by power shortage
Source: BBC Is a lack of power holding back educational technology in Africa? There are well-documented problems about access to education. The Africa Learning Barometer at the US-based Center for […]
Ghana: Veep charged Muslims to live peacefully with others
Veep charged Muslims to live peacefully with others Pomadze(C/R), Jan. 8, GNA – Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has called on Muslims to live peacefully with other religious faiths in order to enhance the country’s development. He also called for frank and honest debate in the sharing of the nation’s resources […]
A better year for migrants?
Jan 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Peter D. Sutherland The Mediterranean migration crisis has delivered two critical lessons. First, Europe and the international community have grossly inadequate systems for protecting vulnerable migrants. Second, in the absence of such systems, populist leaders will prey on fear to gain political support, undermining the […]
Muslim millennials’ views on religion
Jan 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby At the close of 2015, Zogby Research Services (ZRS) conducted face-to-face polling with 5,374 Muslim youth between the ages of 15 and 34 in eight Arab countries: Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and Palestine. We had been commissioned […]
Video series: Slavery in America: The Roots
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured […]
Mount Sinai of the Bible and the Quran
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the Biblical Mount Sinai, and a discussion of its possible locations, see Biblical Mount Sinai. Mount Sinai (Ṭūr Sīnāʼ) Summit of Mount Sinai Highest […]
Nigeria court in Kano sentences cleric to death for blasphemy
Source: BBC An Islamic court has sentenced a Nigerian cleric to death by hanging for insulting the Prophet Muhammad in the northern city of Kano. Abdulazeez Dauda, popularly known as […]
Merry Christmas to the 300 million Orthodox Christian brothers and sisters; celebrating today
Epigraph: Muhammad, thou shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants […]
Gambia: ‘Islam Gives No One Authority to Harm Others’ Says Youth President of Ahmadiyya
http://allafrica.com/: The national youth president of Ahmadiyya, Tahir Ahmad Touray, has revealed that Islam is a peaceful religion and gives no authority to anyone to harm others. He made the statement on Friday at the 32nd annual national Ijtema of Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya held at Nusrat Senior Secondary School in Bundung.It […]
Somali al Shabaab militants use Donald Trump in recruiting film
Source: MSN.com RIYADH, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Somalia’s Islamist militant group al Shabaab has released a recruitment film in the form of a documentary about racial injustice in the United […]
Dealing with Boko Haram
By AMINO ABUBAKAR & ADEROGBA OBISESAN Published — Saturday 2 January 2016 Source: Arab News As Nigeria rings in 2016, the ever-present threat of violence by Boko Haram hangs heavy […]
Happy New Year and What is the Muslim Times Doing for You
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Wishing a happy and a prosperous new year 2017 to all our readers from the whole of our Editorial […]
Nigeria president says ready to negotiate for release of Chibok girls
President Muhammadu Buhari. (Reuters) AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Published — Thursday 31 December 2015 LAGOS: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said he had no new intelligence on some 200 schoolgirls kidnapped almost two years ago, and that his government would negotiate with any “credible” Boko Haram leadership for their release. […]
International Criminal Court Files Request to Question Gaddafi: Report
December, 26, 2015 – TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The International Criminal Court reportedly filed a request to Lebanese authorities to question the son of deposed Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi, the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat said Saturday. General Prosecutor Judge Samir Hammoud is studying a request by ICC to question Hannibal Gaddafi over […]
Uneducated Kenyan Muslims smarter than Trump and Many Republicans
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred. Any one who saves a life would be as if he or she has saved the whole of humanity; by his or […]
Waiting to leave Libya’s ‘cemetery of the unknown’
By AFP – Dec 23,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – AFP Abdelhamid Al Swei, who is in charge of transporting bodies to the cemetery for the Red Crescent, looks at the grave of an unidentified migrant at the Bir El Osta Milad Cemetery, dubbed by locals as the ‘cemetery of the […]