Source: TOI CAIRO: Egypt’s supreme constitutional court ruled as illegal the law by which the upper house of parliament was elected but said that the chamber would not be dissolved until a new parliament is in place, judicial sources said. More:
After 5-days intensive session MEST concludes Science and Technology Workshop By: SEM on May 30, 2013. It is no secret that there has been poor performance and less attention paid […]
By AllAfrica.com Makyinmabre is a farming village in the Nkoranza South District of the Brong Ahafo Region. This village lies within the stool land of the Atekoanohene, Nana Kofi Adu III, who is a sub-chief of Katakyie Agyeman Kodom IV, Omanhene of the Nkoranza Traditional Area. Makyinmabre is a cosmopolitan […]
Source: TOI CAIRO: Egypt could close the strategic Suez Canal to ships from countries like China that are helping Ethiopia build a controversial dam that threatens supply of Nile water to the country, a top opposition leader has said. “The state is capable of holding talks with the countries financing […]
DUBAI // About 58,000 pupils in 309 primary schools in Comoros have benefited from a four-year programme funded by a UAE charity. Dubai Cares said its Dh9.4 million initiative was […]
Source: indexoncensorship.org An Egyptian Christian primary school teacher has gone into hiding after pupils accused her of blasphemy. Shahira Amin reports. Dimyana Abdel Nour, a 24 year-old social studies teacher at Naga El […]
By Henry Dimbleby, Guardian News Service 2013 Mint tea only really appeared on my gastronomic radar about 10 years ago, during a research trip to the Egyptian city of Alexandria. […]
HRW: (Tripoli) – Libyan authorities should seize a historic opportunity to promote and protect women’s rights as the country transitions from four decades of dictatorship, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The parliament, government, and other bodies should ensure that women can participate actively and equally […]
Meeting to mark African bloc’s 50th jubilee expected to call for dropping of ICC charges against Kenyan leader. Dozens of African leaders met in the Ethiopian capital to mark 50 years since the founding of the African Union, a continentwide organisation that helped liberate Africa from colonial masters and which […]
Traders The commercial importance of Kumasi encourages both men and women to trade, and many moved here for that purpose. The savannah-based trading networks to the north of Kumasi are […]
Reuters | May 21, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES KHARTOUM — Lebanese farmland investor GLB Invest plans to invest up to $800 million in Sudan to produce animal feed to be sold to Saudi Arabia, its president said on Tuesday. Arab investors have launched farmland and livestock projects in the vast […]
Source: NY Times By STEVEN LEE MYERS WASHINGTON — Countries around the world, including allies of the United States, have used laws on blasphemy and apostasy to suppress political opponents, the State Department said on Monday in an annual report chronicling a grim decline in religious freedom that has resulted in rising […]
Dunya News: SWAZILAND (Web Desk) – A 22-year-old woman fled to Britain from the southern African nation of Swaziland and is seeking asylum after refusing to join the harem of 13 wives of Swazi king Mswati III. Tintswalo Ngobeni fled to Britain after she caught the attention of the millionaire […]
Ibn Khaldun: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Statue of Ibn Khaldun in Tunis Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (full name, Arabic: أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, Abū Zayd ‘Abdu r-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad bin Khaldūn Al-Ḥaḍrami, May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH – March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH) […]
ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS Friday 17 May 2013 Shamsuddin Mohammed, “Ibn Battuta”, the great Muslim adventurer of Morocco, was born on 17th of Rajab 703 AH (corresponding to Feb. 24, […]
Source: The Economist FOR young people of Muslim heritage, the internet can either be a deadly temptation or a breath of fresh air. At worst, for some frustrated kids with time on their hands, it opens a window into a world of extremism where all moderating influences from real life (parents, […]
Huff Post: by Abdi Guled. MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hundreds of sweating Sufis chant and sway as the lead sheik moves into the middle of a circle of worshippers and bursts into a chant louder than anyone else’s Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, is having a major comeback since al-Shabab, […]
By Ahmed Maher BBC News, Tunis Tunisia’s government says that some 800 of its citizens are fighting alongside Islamist rebels in Syria, although some estimates put the figure much higher. […]
Last Sunday, Pope Francis canonized the 800 Christian martyrs executed by Muslim Ottoman forces raiding southern Italy in 1480.According to reports coming from Rome, the 800 were killed because they […]
President John Dramani Mahama has urged Ghanaians to respect chiefs and traditional leaders for their crucial role as custodians of lands and contribution to overall national progress and development. He […]