Jan 16, 2013 – 10:58 By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) – Islamist militants attacked a gas field in Algeria on Wednesday, claiming to have kidnapped up to 41 foreigners including seven Americans in a dawn raid in retaliation for France’s intervention in Mali, according to regional media reports. The raiders […]
Source: The Local. Chancellor Angela Merkel has ruled out sending combat troops to fight Islamist rebels in Mali alongside France, but warned the northern African nation should not be allowed to become a failed state. More:
AFP | Jan 14, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES BAMAKO — Islamist forces on Monday seized control of a town in a fresh attack in Mali’s government-held south and vowed to strike “at the heart” of France as it waged a fourth day of air strikes against them. A local government […]
By Al Arabiya The first Muslim woman to win an Olympic gold medal could be the first female to break men’s long-standing in heading the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for 2013, a newspaper reported Sunday. Nawal al-Moutawakel, who is IOC’s vice-president, became the first Moroccan, African, Arab, Muslim woman to […]
Source: Spiegel. By Matthias Gebauer in Sevare, Mali AFP PHOTO / SITE Monitoring Service This handout photo reportedly shows Islamist fighters preparing for war in northern Mali. France led the West on Friday in offering to help Mali’s interim government push back a surprise offensive launched Thursday by Islamist […]
Jan 11, 2013 – 03:05 By Alexandria Sage and Tiemoko Diallo PARIS/BAMAKO (Reuters) – France would intervene to stop any further drive southward by Islamist rebels in Mali, President Francois […]
Switzerland is to provide $2.9 million (SFr3.1 million) to help resettle Chadians who had been working for many years in Libya, and returned home during and after the uprising that […]
The political and religious temperature is fast boiling in Wa municipal. 2008-2012 tested our weak political and religious credentials in the Wa municipality. We involved in political violence and overthrow of ministers and religious violence to some extent, what about this time round. The question is who really care about […]
Daily Times: CAIRO: The Egyptian army foiled a bid early Monday to attack a Coptic church in the Rafah border town with Gaza as the minority Christian community began celebrating its Christmas, MENA news agency reported. “Army units foiled an attack against the Rafah church at 1am (2300 GMT Sunday) and […]
Author: Gibbi Sallah Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat’s 29th Annual Youth conference held The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat on Friday held its annual national ijtema (youth conference) at Nasir Ahmaddiyya Senior Secondary School in Basse, Upper River Region (URR). The conference, which started on Friday, was held with the motto; “a nation cannot […]
by Taylor Luck, Jordan Times AMMAN — Jordan’s Egyptian gas supplies have returned to “normal levels”, according to energy officials, after nearly two years of reduced supply due to political […]
By SARAH EL DEEB 01/03/13 01:55 PM ET EST CAIRO — A leading Muslim Brotherhood member and adviser to Islamist President Mohammed Morsi created a stir in Egypt when he called on Egyptian Jews in Israel to return home because Egypt is now a democracy and because the Jewish state […]
Source: All Africa. Com The Youth Wing of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at The Gambia, known as Khuddamul Ahmadiyya, recently held its 29th annual convention also known as (Ijtema). The convention took place at the Nasir Ahmadiyya Muslim Senior Secondary School in Basse in the Upper River Region. The ceremony was […]
Source: All Africa. Com Violence is expensive. Countries not only pay a lot of money to build, supply and maintain military and police forces, but also to investigate and punish criminal activity. Worldwide, at least $9 trillion is spent each year in response to violence and the threat of violence. […]
OYEM, Gabon — This lush country, often called a “forest republic,” used to stand proudly apart from its shaky neighbors, like the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African […]
by Rana Husseini | Jan 02, 2013 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Two Jordanian peacekeepers who were abducted in Sudan’s Darfur region in August were released and on their way to the Jordanian mission in Sudan, the Public Security Department (PSD) announced on Wednesday. “We have been notified by the Sudanese […]
BY TAKEO KAMIYA REPUBLIC OF MALI in WEST AFRICA The African Continent is divided into two parts in respect of architecture; the ‘Arab Africa’ in the north facing the Mediterranean […]
By TAMBA JEAN-MATTHEW in Dakar | Saturday, December 29 2012 at 15:01 AFRICA REVIEW In the wake of a recent Senegalese mass wedding that featured minors, it would appear that nuptial laws in the west African country border can sometimes border on the liberal. But for inter-religious marriages, this is […]
By Fiona Ehlers Spiegel.de A US aid organization has handed children in the remote Ethiopian village of Wenchi tablet computers in an experiment aimed at enabling them to teach themselves. […]
Agence France Presse ARABNEWS Friday 28 December 2012 BENGHAZI, Libya: Some 2,000 people rallied in Libya’s second city Benghazi on Friday to demand that militias made up of former rebels […]