Daily Times: After a crackdown pushed them out of Nigeria’s northern cities, Islamist militant group Boko Haram have regrouped, rearmed and are staging a bold comeback that has already allowed them to seize control over parts of the northeast. Using porous borders with Chad, Niger and Cameroon in the desolate […]
By Robyn Dixon May 10, 2013, 12:28 p.m. JOHANNESBURG — Africa loses the benefit of billions of dollars each year through illegal tax evasion, money transfers and secretive business deals, […]
Ten years ago, to be a religious Muslim youth would be considered to be conservative or traditional. Ten years later, to be a pious Muslim youth is being associated with […]
Source:Spiegel REUTERS Lions are becoming a threatened species. Trophy hunters and the loss of savannah grasslands have drastically reduced the number of prides. Scientists and conservationists are calling for improved protections for lions — even if that means fenced-in enclosures. More:
Source: www.allafrica.com The head of the visiting volunteers from Humanity First International in UK has lauded Tahir Ahmadiyya Senior School for the high standard of hygiene in the school environment. Razia […]
NERVANA MAHMOUD Special to The Globe and Mail On late Saturday, Pope Tawadros II led his first Easter Mass as head of the ancient Coptic Christian Church in Egypt by […]
Sierra.Express.Media: By Alhaji Mohamed Wusha-Conteh. To mark the Country’s 52nd Independence Anniversary, it has graciously pleased His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone to recognize […]
The United Nations has announced plans to relocate some 80,000 displaced Somalis living in the war-torn capital Mogadishu, Press TV reports. According to the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), an estimated 200,000 to 360,000 people who fled the country’s famine, are currently living in more than 500 overcrowded camps. In […]
ALSIR SIDAHMED ARABNEWS Wednesday 1 May 2013 SOMETHING is happening in nearby Africa that the Middle East region, currently at a crossroads, needs to take note of it. A combination of improved political and economic conditions is painting a new image and sowing the seeds of hope for a better […]
Source: www.foxnews.com RABAT, Morocco – Morocco’s Islamist prime minister says it’s unacceptable to criticize the Prophet Muhammad, entering a war of words between a secular activist and hardline Salafists that has […]
by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Counsel on Foreign Relations This is a guest post by Jacob Zenn, an analyst of African Affairs for the Washington D.C. based think tank, […]
Source: USA Today By Cathy Lynn Grossman Devotion to Islam shapes the lives of most Muslims but their views on democracy, religious law known as sharia, and family life are varied, a new study finds. The research report on Muslim views on religion, politics and society was released Tuesday by The […]
By PETER BAUMANN / peterb@laramieboomerang.com • Sunday, April 28, 2013 Source: BOOMERANG Laramie High School senior Emily Simpson poses for a photograph with students of the T.I. Ahmadiyya Basic School […]
As the usual culprits persist in their usual campaigns against postrevolution Egypt, the government endeavors to boost tourism in many innovative as well as classical ways. Source: IKHWAN WEB – […]
Source: leadership.ng The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Nigeria has backed ongoing moves by the President Goodluck Jonathan administration to begin a dialogue with the Boko Haram sect. On the heels of […]
CAIRO (AP) — An alleged romance between an Egyptian Muslim college student and a Coptic Christian man heightened sectarian tension on Friday in a small rural Egyptian town where police fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing Muslims who surrounded a Coptic church in anger over the inter-faith relationship, a security […]
Youtube: Published on Apr 26, 2013 President of the AHmadiyya Muslim Juma’at, Dr Moshood Fashola has vehemently opposed the plan by the federal government to grant a “ghost” group, Boko Haram, […]
Source:Vanguard via Wasim Sr. The Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Organisation, has charged leaders at various level of governance to lead by example, show justice and equity and eschew all forms of vegeance inorder to move the nation forward. The cahrge was contained in a communique issued at […]
Multiple Trajectories of Islam in Africa Islam had already spread into northern Africa by the mid-seventh century A.D., only a few decades after the Prophet Muhammad moved with his followers from Mecca to Medina on the neighboring Arabian Peninsula (622 A.D./1 A.H.). The Arab conquest of Spain and the push […]
“The Mohammedan Negro has felt nothing of the withering power of caste. There is nothing in his colour or race to debar him from the highest privileges, social or political, […]