BBC News: Spending cuts imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may have contributed to the rapid spread of Ebola in three West African states, UK-based researchers say. It had led to “under-funded, insufficiently staffed, and poorly prepared health systems” in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, they said. READ MORE… […]
Summary SUMMARY by Rami G. Khouri Those elites and foreign powers were caught off guard four years ago today, on Dec. 17, 2010, when Mohammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, when he became exasperated by the mistreatment he experienced at the hands […]
allafrica.com: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Nigeria is set to hold its 63rd annual conference, (Jalsa Salana), 2014. The event will be held at the Jamia Ahmadiyya (Ahmadiyya Missionary Training Center ) Ilaro- Owode road, Ilaro ,Ogun state. According to a release signed by Qasim Akinreti, Chairman National publicity committee and […]
By Oliver Maksan Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga, the president of the bishops’ conference and archbishop of the capital city of Bangui, recently visited a camp where former members of the […]
BBC News: Kenya has deregistered 510 non-governmental organisations (NGOs), including 15 accused of links with terrorism, an official has said. The government has also frozen their bank accounts and revoked the work permits of foreign employees. The move follows a heated debate in Kenya over a controversial new security bill […]
BBC News: At least 1.5 million people displaced by the Islamist insurgency in north-east Nigeria may not be able to vote in elections if the law is not changed, an electoral official has told the BBC. Discrepancies in the law needed to be resolved in “very good time” or people […]
by Matthew Champion All public Christmas celebrations in Sierra Leone have been cancelled to help stop the spread of Ebola, it has been announced. The government’s Ebola response unit said […]
By Nohad Topalian in Beirut Work is under way in Lebanon to fight sectarianism and extremism on the heels of the international counterterrorism conference in Cairo, Christian and Muslim clerics […]
This is an initiative of the Ahmadiyya Mulim Community of Mauritius . By the help of a foreign doctor the community did organized free cataract surgery for people who reside in Madagascar & Comoros Island. Press conference with the Media in […]
BBC News: A twin bomb attack has taken place in a busy area of the Nigerian city of Jos, killing at least 30 people, witnesses say. The two bombs exploded in quick succession, close to the scene of a major bombing in May. READ MORE…
BBC News: Health officials in Sierra Leone have discovered scores of bodies in a remote diamond-mining area, raising fears that the scale of the Ebola outbreak may have been underreported. The World Health Organization said they uncovered a “grim scene” in the eastern district of Kono. A WHO response team […]
Source: NY Times: While much of the world has been focused on the rise of the Islamic State, another proto-Islamic state has been waging a campaign of terror while dreaming of a caliphate in Nigeria. Since the public execution of Boko Haram’s founder in 2009 by Nigerian security forces, a hard-line […]
The Missionary in charge of Mauritius Jama’at was in Madagascar for three weeks. During his stay he met the Prime Minister of Madagascar M.Roger Kolo where he gifted a copy of the Holy Qur’an in Malagasy language. He also offered the booklet […]
A closer look at the BBC’s investigation on the global cost of jihadist violence More than 5,000 people worldwide died in November as a result of jihadist violence, a BBC […]
Epigraph: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of […]
Summary by Rami G. Khouri It is tempting to make definitive judgments about the meaning of the extraordinary stages of Egyptian political life since then, but also reckless. The economy, real incomes and job-creation all remain insufficient in the face of the Egyptians’ basic needs, while the population continues to […]
Nigeria: Commissioning of Jamia Ahmadiyya Library Courtesy: Kabir Adeseye Ade, Muallim Nigeria WELCOME SPEECH BY THE SADR MAJLIS ANSARULLAH NIGERIA, ALHAJI M. B. ODUKOYA DURING THE COMMISSIONING OF JAMIA LIBRARY ON SUNDAY, 23RD NOVEMBER 2015 Amir Sahib, Members of National Aamila here present, Distinguished Guests, Fellow Ansars, Assalamu Alaikum Warahmatullah […]
Through his work Khalid tries to show that the idea is more important than anything else. For him it is the individual’s ideas that make him different from his peers […]
bbc.co.uk: At least seven people have been killed in a twin suicide bomb attack in the town of Baidoa in southern Somalia. READ MORE…
Source: GNA Accra, Dec. 3, GNA – Three senior high schools (SHS) on Tuesday received awards for reaching the finals of the maiden “Inaugural Africa Schools Debate-Dialogue League” competition. It is an Africa Intellectual Integration Project, organised by The Think Africa Forum, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in collaboration with Ghana […]