Despite the fact that the child Algerian Abdul Rahman; which did not exceed three years old, could not read a single word written, but he was able – through listening to the verses of the Quran – to preserve the Book of Allah by heart; to enter encyclopedia Guinness Book […]
By Hauke Goos and Bernhard Riedmann (Photos) SPIEGEL.DE In the hottest part of the desert, an adult sitting in the shade loses up to one liter of water an hour, […]
Source: The Guardian from 2014 By Sarah Boseley, who is the health editor of the Guardian. She has won a number of awards for her work on HIV/Aids in Africa, including the One World Media award (twice) and the European section of the Lorenzo Natali prize, awarded by the European […]
The Australian government is facing more criticism for not sending health workers to Africa to help fight Ebola. A 25-bed US field hospital that will treat international health workers who contract the virus is due to open soon. READ MORE…
Tunisia’s secularist party Nidaa Tounes has won 85 seats in the country’s parliament following Sunday’s elections, official results show. The governing Islamist Ennahda party won 69 seats in the 217-seat chamber. READ MORE…
Source:CNN (CNN) — The military in the West African nation of Burkina Faso seized control of the government on Thursday and set a dusk-to-dawn curfew in what one general described as an effort to protect lives and restore order. Unrest has gripped Burkina Faso — a key ally for the […]
Source. The daily Beast. Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty On Thursday, protesters in Burkina Faso set fire to the nation’s parliament building, the city hall of the capital Ouagadougou, and the ruling party’s headquarters. Protesters are angry over plans to extend term limits so that the current president, Blaise Compaore, can extend his […]
Guardian: A self-styled, secular, modernist party called Nidaa Tounes won against the Islamist Ennahda party in the Tunisian election this week. For many, the subsequent headline – “Secularist party wins Tunisia elections” – will seem more impressive than the fact Tunisia just completed its second genuinely competitive, peaceful elections since […]
The government has pledged an additional CHF40 million ($42.2 million) for the victims of the conflicts in Syria and Iraq as well as for efforts to contain the spread of […]
The president of the World Bank has appealed for thousands of medical workers to volunteer and help contain the growing Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Jim Yong Kim said at least 5,000 medics and support staff were needed to beat the disease. Many potential recruits were too scared to travel […]
TUNIS — Tunisia’s transition to democracy serves as an example of how to defeat extremists such as the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, the leader of the country’s powerful Islamist movement said. “The success of the Tunisian experience is in the international interest, especially in the fight against extremism and […]
Dozens of people are being monitored in Mali after the country confirmed its first case of Ebola. The patient is a two-year-old girl who recently arrived from Guinea, which along with Liberia and Sierra Leone has seen most of the 4,800 deaths. However, the Malian health ministry says her condition […]
Tunisian security forces have stormed a house in a Tunis suburb to end a stand-off with armed militants, killing six people, officials said. One gunman and five women were killed in the raid on the house in the Oued Ellil area, officials said. READ MORE…
Dozens of women and girls from two villages in Nigeria’s north-eastern Adamawa state have been abducted by suspected militants, residents say. The abductions have not been confirmed by the authorities, but residents say they took place a day after the military announced it had agreed a ceasefire with the Boko […]
The World Health Organization’s emergency committee is holding talks to discuss the Ebola epidemic. The meeting in Geneva will examine screening measures at borders and consider whether stricter travel regulations should be put in place. New rules in the US require travellers from the worst affected countries to arrive at […]
An Islamic court has stoned a teenager to death in southern Somalia after convicting him of raping a woman, a pro-Islamist news site reports. READ MORE…
THIS post and National Geography and several news releases including a FEMA effort to solicit cost and delivery of dried food from its supplies in unprecedented manner are clear alarms of world food crisis. Keep in mind: 1. The huge amount of pig farming and pork consumption. 2. Huge unnecessary […]
Ahmadiyya Times: Philanthropic institutions, including the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ahmadiyya Muslim of UK, amongst others, that have also contributed Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int’l Desk Source/Credit: Liberian Observer By Liberian Observer | October 21, 2014 Foreign Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan has provided […]
gbcghana.com: The Ameer and Missionary in Charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana, Maulvi Alhaji Mohammed Bin-Salih has called for greater discipline and cooperation among Ghanaians particularly the Ahmadis to build a progressive society.According to him without discipline, it is difficult for any community to succeed in its transformation […]
Port Louis, Mauritius — The poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge reads, “Water, water everywhere. Nor any drop to drink.” These words ring all too true […]