Residents of a Nigerian village on the shore of Lake Chad say at least 50 residents are missing after a raid by suspected Boko Haram militants. A witness told the BBC that 26 people were also killed during the raid on the village of Doron Baga on Sunday. READ MORE… […]
Ahmadiyya Inter-Faith Conference: Muslims, Christians, others mull over Boko Haram on August 08, 2014 By Haroon I Balogun Adherents of various beliefs last week rose from inter-faith conference organised by the Ahmadiya Muslim Jamaat, Eastern Zone with a resolve to come together to fight all forms of religious deviants in […]
Source: starconnectmedia.com The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Nigeria has demanded for an urgent enquiry into the killing of three Ahmadiyya female members including an eight month old infant in arson attack in […]
According to the AP, at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit on Tuesday U.S. President Barack Obama announced $14 Billion USD in investment commitments from U.S. companies including such heavyweights as General Electric, Marriott and IBM. Even with this massive announcement, former President Bill Clinton went out of his way to point […]
The wives of Nigerian soldiers have protested against their husbands being sent to fight militant Islamist group Boko Haram, a demonstrator has said. The protest at the main military barracks in north-eastern Maiduguri city came as the government vowed to retake Gwoza town from the militants. Hundreds of people were […]
Somali National and inelegance security services has shot and killed a senior commander of Al Shabaab militant in Mogadishu’s Hiliwaa district, according to Gov’t officials. Read more »
French forces have bombed Islamist militant positions in northern Mali. READ MORE…
Dakar/Younde — A cholera epidemic in northern Cameroon has killed at least 65 people and probably infected about 1,300 people in two months, as international attention has been diverted to fighting Ebola in West Africa, health experts said on Saturday. They said the insurgency by Islamist sect Boko Haram was […]
(CNN) — Global health experts Friday declared the Ebola epidemic ravaging West Africa an international health emergency that requires a coordinated global approach. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are battling […]
Militants with suspected ties to Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram have killed 10 people in a raid on a remote village in north Cameroon, police say. Nine bus passengers and a soldier were shot dead after coming “face-to-face” with heavily armed militants in Zigague, they add. READ MORE…
Source: Reuters and Huffington Post By Derick Snyder and Daniel Flynn MONROVIA/DAKAR, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Health workers in West Africa appealed on Wednesday for urgent help in controlling the world’s worst Ebola outbreak as the death toll climbed to 932 and Liberia shut a major hospital where several staff […]
Source: BBC Indirect talks between Israeli and Palestinian representatives are taking place in the Egyptian capital Cairo. They come after a four-week conflict in Gaza that has claimed more than […]
The United States needs to “up our game” and do much more to promote business with Africa, President Obama told the Business Forum at the U.S.-Africa Summit. He announced a series of actions ” to take our trade with Africa to the next level.” Following his speech, the president sat […]
A U.S. missionary who contracted Ebola has been evacuated from Liberia aboard a special medical flight. Nancy Writebol was flown out of Monrovia Tuesday and is expected to arrive in the United States later Tuesday. She will be treated at Emory University Hospital in the southeastern U.S. city of Atlanta […]
August 3, 2014 Outbreak Update The World Health Organization, in partnership with the Ministries of Health in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria announced a cumulative total of 1440 suspect and confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) and 826 deaths, as of July 30, 2014. Of the 1440 clinical […]
Islam was first introduced to Africa in Somalia in the early seventh century by Muslims Arabs fleeing persecution from the pagan Quraysh tribe on the Arab Peninsula. Later, it was […]
Le sadr Ansarullah, Amine Jowahir donnant des directives pour que la marche de la Municipalité de Quatre Bornes jusqu’à celle de Rose-Hill soit faite dans la discipline. Présents sur la photo, Mubarak Kaudeer, Nasseem Taujoo Sadr Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya, Ameer Saheb, Mr D.Bemadoo maire de Quatre Bornes, Fouad Lallbeeharry sadr de […]
La Mairie de Q. Bornes avait sollicité la participation de la djamaa’te musulmane Ahmadiyya à une conférence publique ayant comme thème : « La violence domestique. » Il échût à M. Mobarak Boodhun de presenter le point de vue de l’Islam à propos de ce sujet qui fait, ces derniers […]
Source: BBC News The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is spreading faster than efforts to control it, World Health Organization (WHO) head Margaret Chan has said. She told a summit of regional leaders that failure to contain Ebola could be “catastrophic” in terms of lives lost. But she said […]
Dailykos.com: Umaru Fofana and Adam Bailes bring us the sad news that Sierra Leones’ top specialist in Ebola and viral hemorrhagic fever diseases, Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, died of Ebola after being exposed by one of the more than 100 patients he has heroically cared for. Their article, Top Ebola […]