(AGI) Bamako – Tuareg rebels have encircled the army garrison in Timbuktu in Mali. Timbuktu is the only city in the north of the country not yet conquered by the rebels in the offensive launched after the military coup of 22 March. The MNLA, the main Tuareg separatist group, issued […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon Three great battles over political power have been unleashed across the Arab world and will persist for many years, until a new political order stabilizes in every country. One in particular is now reaching an important point that will reveal much about […]
The Global Post: TESS, Sudan — The United States and the UN are scrambling to get food to this conflict zone where an estimated 500,000 people are at risk of […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star Lebanon I have been following the deliberations of Arab summit meetings for my entire adult life, and still remain dubious about the value of such gatherings. The summit taking place this week in Baghdad seems no different – but the Arab world itself […]
By OSAMA AL SHARIF, ARABNEWS Arab Islamist movements have never been so close to grabbing power through open and democratic elections as they are today. They have already succeeded in Tunisia and Egypt. They are expected to do well in Algeria’s upcoming polls. And if elections are held in Jordan […]
By REUTERS ARABNEWS TUNIS: The moderate Islamist Ennahda party, which leads Tunisia’s government, said on Monday it would oppose naming Islamic law, or sharia, in the new constitution, an issue that has threatened to derail the country’s transition to democracy. A constituent assembly, elected in October, is hashing out a […]
AFP | Mar 27,2012 | JORDAN TIMES BAGHDAD — This week’s Arab summit in Baghdad will be very different from the one that met two years ago, with many long-time autocrats swept away by the political tsunami that has struck across the region. Instead, new Islamist leaders will sit alongside […]
Credit: Allafrica.Com A few weeks from now- April 16th to be precise-Operation Linda Nchi will be entering its sixth month since the launch in mid October last year. It is time for some serious soul-searching and honest appraisal. There are several pertinent questions that ought to be asked of our […]
NY Times: MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The teenager in the immaculate white robe stood in the ruins of what had been his school. There were no classrooms, no desks or chairs, […]
Friday, January 27, 2012 GAMBIAN OBSERVER: The Amir of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamat in The Gambia, Baba F. Trawally, last Saturday laid the foundation stone of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat’s mosque worth D1.2M in Farafenni Wharf Town, opposite the Farafenni Senior Secondary School. The Amir also inaugurated a new library for the […]
Pandemonium broke loose in the township of Kenema city causing business people to close their shops and pack their wares while parents rushed to schools to collect their children on Thursday morning 22nd March 2012. According to reports a motor bike rider Aruna Lansana of Koryagbema section in Kenema city […]
Credit: Asia Times: By Henery Flood. Looted arms and hardened fighters returning from Libya’s internationally backed war fueled the coup d’etat in Mali this week that is threatening stability in the wider Sahara and Sahel regions. The Arab Spring has bled into Western Africa and the mercurial egomaniac who historically […]
By TOM HENEGHAN | REUTERS CAIRO: Al-Azhar, Egypt’s 1,000-year-old seat of Islamic learning, will soon be preaching its doctrines on satellite television, a space it has previously left to Islamist […]
Credit: Spiegel Germany: y Horand Knaup. AP Bloody conflicts in a band of Africa stretching from Senegal to Somalia are hampering efforts to bring progress to the troubled region. Muslims are increasingly pitted against Christians, and nomads against sedentary farmers. Matters are made worse by climate change and a flood […]
By JEDDAH: GALAL FAKKAR, ARAB NEWS STAFF Published: Mar 20, 2012 01:06 Updated: Mar 20, 2012 01:06 Egyptian authorities have taken steps to bring Haj and Umrah affairs under a single authority to streamline Haj operations in the country. “The proposed independent commission will solve organizational difficulties related to the […]
AZA MSUE Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in 19 Northern states and Abuja yesterday commended the peace dialogue between Christian and Muslim youth leaders who jointly observed lent during the […]
Source: CNN Moulkheir Mint Yarba returned from a day of tending her master’s goats out on the Sahara Desert to find something unimaginable: Her baby girl, barely old enough to […]
by Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch Fifty years ago French and Algerian representatives signed a series of peace accords in the French town of Evian, ending Algeria’s brutal eight-year war of independence. By offering its good offices under a policy of active neutrality, which helped resolve the conflict, historian Marc Perrenoud tells […]
“Can you open a Shi’ite mosque here, in Egypt? How about an Ahmadi mosque? It is forbidden. You can get thrown into prison. Our lack of openness is not limited […]
by Stefania Summermatter, swissinfo.ch Some fled from a country torn by war. Others were following the dream of a better future: a job, a home, a family. At the end […]