AYA BATRAWY | AP ARABNEWS Friday 24 August 2012 CAIRO: Several thousand Egyptians rallied Friday in the first significant protests against the country’s Islamist President Muhammad Mursi, accusing him and his Muslim Brotherhood group of trying to monopolize power. The main protest in Cairo, which counted around 3,000 people and […]
Credit: Daily Graphic Ghana This day last week, the reality dawned on all Ghanaians. The body of our late president was unveiled to start three days of national grief. The shining mourning stars throughout the period were the women of Ghana.They wept with tears flowing freely. Apart from those relishing […]
Credit: Allafrica.com In 1961, the constitution of Somalia was overwhelmingly approved by the citizens of the newly-formed Somali nation-state. So, one might ask, what prompted the need for the new ‘provisional’ constitution passed on August 1, 2012? Somalia is currently gearing up for the official end of its period of […]
By JONATHAN SPYER JERUSALEM POST The Muslim Brotherhood is set to embark on a push toward political power across the region. The recent events in Sinai are the latest evidence of Egypt’s rapid transformation under the ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood. They are only the most visible manifestation of the […]
EL-ARISH, Egypt — A fringe group so extreme that it worries even Egypt’s Muslim fundamentalists is secretly reviving itself with greater firepower and followers in the country’s volatile Sinai Peninsula. Disciples of the group known as Takfir wil-Hijra, dubbed “Takfiris,” lead secretive, isolated lives where anything and anyone that does […]
CAIRO: ARAB NEWS Thursday 23 August 2012 Egypt has asked for a $ 4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, which stressed the need for a reform program to […]
By Lisa Beyer Aug 22, 2012 BLOOMBERG Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi’s Israel problem is becoming increasingly manifest. To the Muslim Brotherhood, the political organization from which he emerged, Israel is an anathema. Yet Mursi knows that to maintain international credibility, not to mention $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid, […]
AFP | Aug 21, 2012 JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — Iran and Egypt are moving towards restoring diplomatic relations which were severed more than three decades ago, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in an interview published on Tuesday. Salehi said in comments reported in Egypt’s state-run Al Ahram newspaper […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Tuesday 21 August 2012 ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, a regional strongman in power for over two decades, has died in hospital abroad, the […]
AFP | Aug 21, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES NEW YORK – US authorities on Monday announced the seizure of $150 million allegedly linked to a scheme by the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah to launder proceeds from drug trafficking and other crimes. The money came from a US bank account used […]
Credit: Asia Times. The gloom in Washington must be deepening. Egypt is careering away from the alliance with the United States – and the bitter truth cannot be hidden or obfuscated anymore. This is not how Washington expected the “right side of history” to play out. The Arab Spring has […]
The Vice-President of Ghana, Mr Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has urged Muslims to resist the temptation of opportunists who recruit macho-men to cause violence to political opponents. He underscored the need for […]
In a recent Poll, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has defined, what joins and separates the Muslims. There is a 164 page report of the Poll […]
” If only ” the Muslim world could concentrate in solving its own problems and coordinating with each other. For instance: Egypt imported in 2011 an amount of 11’600’000 metric […]
South Asian News Agency (SANA) ⋅ August 19, 2012 ⋅ Share/Save CAIRO, (SANA): Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Mursi will visit Iran to attend the Non-Aligned Movement meetings on Aug 30, […]
BY AMINA JUMA, 19 AUGUST 2012 Morogoro — AHMADIYYA Muslims Community in Morogoro Region has assured the Government in the Region that their followers will participate in the National Census, which is expected to take off on August 26, this year. Morogoro Regional Ahmadiyya Muslims Community Sheikh Asif Butt said […]
When Tunisia’s National Constitutional Assembly published the new draft constitution, a storm broke out over its words about women. It read: “The State guaranties the protection of women rights and the promotion of their gains, as a real partner of men in the mission of the homeland building, and the […]
Credit: Allafrica. Com Photo: Ryan Youngblood A mother and her sick child at a community health centre in Freetown (file photo). Freetown/Conakry/Accra/Dakar — Aid agencies are scrambling to treat thousands of cholera patients in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, where the number of infections is mounting by over 250 per day. […]
United Nations: Former Algerian Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi on Friday was named as joint U.N.-Arab League special representative for Syria, replacing Kofi Annan as the international mediator tasked with finding […]
Credit:Allafrica.com Police have shot dead more than 30 striking miners after a series of violent protests at one of the world’s largest platinum-producing mines. More: