Source: The Economist: The continent has entered its 2nd decade of sustained growth. Most countries have been growing at more than 5% every single year since 2003, and projections show that this momentum will continue. While the new services industries are important, they alone will not enable African countries to […]
Source: Asia Times. By Nan Chen From the eight-lane Nairobi-Thika highway built by Chinese construction companies to the ubiquitous Chinese restaurants around town, the signs of China’s activity are everywhere in Kenya – right down to the friendly nihao called out by Kenyans as I walk down a Nairobi street. […]
Religious Affairs | Sierra Express Media By: SEM on March 19, 2013. Various religious sects in the Islamic faiths in Sierra Leone including Ahmadiyya, Shiite and Sunni converged last Saturday 16th March, at the […]
FORBES: by Tim Worstall, Contributor This is a fascinating little interview with Timur Kuran, an expert in Islamic finance. The point being made is that Islamic styles of finance aren’t, in fact, all that different from the “western” type that we are used to. And in fact, in certain situations, […]
West Africa SOURCE: BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/7chapter6.shtml TRADE Islam first came to West Africa as a slow and peaceful process, spread by Muslim traders and scholars. The early journeys across the Sahara were done in stages. Goods passed through chains of Muslim traders, purchased, finally, by local non-Muslims at the southern most […]
By Nadine Marroushi – Mar 14, 2013 Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s largest organized Islamist movement, criticized a United Nations report that aimed to end violence against women and girls, saying it violates principles of Islamic law. The Brotherhood, the movement from which Egypt’s President Mohamed Mursi hails, sent a […]
Global Post: United States President Barack Obama’s golden touch at the polls doesn’t seem to run in the family. His Kenyan half brother, Malik Obama, didn’t quite come last in the polls, but he was close. Obama, who has the same father as the US president, won only 2,792 votes while running […]
by Hussain Ibish, The Daily Beast English has by far the largest vocabulary of any language, but there are still times when we have to look beyond its confines to convey a particular meaning. There is a Spanish word, desengaño, which connotes a combination of disappointment, disenchantment, disillusionment and despair, […]
The Cameroonian Town of Mamfe Manyu played host to the guests of the Promised Messiahas on 1st and 2nd March 2013 when Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Cameroun celebrated her 3rd Jalsa […]
Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s release of $250 million in economic aid to Egypt added fuel to a fiery debate in Washington over whether the U.S. should be helping […]
Source: All Africa. Com The question of whether accepting and acting on climate change adaptation amounts to an admission of defeat for climate change mitigation was the most pressing topic discussed by climate experts on a panel this week at an event sponsored by The Earth Institute. The debate around […]
By David Ignatius The Daily Star Story Summary As Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood government slides toward the financial cliff, what’s the right policy for the United States? Mursi has been dithering for a year in negotiating a roughly $5 billion rescue package from the International Monetary Fund that Egypt desperately needs. […]
Source: All Africa. Com Estranged from his children, pining for his ex-wife, and atypically barefoot in the dream home he designed himself, Kweku Sai, the prodigal surgeon pride of Ghana, dies of a heart attack. This happens in the first tightly coiled sentence of Taiye Selasi’s debut novel Ghana Must […]
by Micah Roshan Reddy, Egypt Independent. Mungo Park, the famous 18th century Scottish explorer, had few good things to say about the Muslims he encountered on his journeys through the Sahara. He spoke of the Moors as “a people who study mischief as a science and exult in the miseries […]
AS early as the 8th century, Islam was introduced into West Africa by Arab merchants, who travelled through the trans-Saharan salt and gold trade routes. Later, Muslim scholars would accompany […]
Source: Daily News: Egypt Protesters blocked the railroad connecting Cairo to Port Said near Ismailia for three hours on Sunday responding to calls for civil disobedience. Several political groups called for total disobedience in Ismailia and Suez on 3 March in solidarity with Port Said’s disobedience, ongoing since 17 February. Read […]
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — News stories about Muslims in West Africa typically focus on conflict, whether it’s Islamist radicals fighting government forces in Mali or a terrorist group bombing Christian churches […]
But all the crusading and invading simply plays into al-Qa’ida’s hands – just ask the French By Robert Fisk: He is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent. He has […]
By ALEX ALVAREZ (@soalexgoes) While the U.S. has deemed it illegal to place bets on who will become the next pope — the selection process is considered an election — […]