France bombs Islamists in north Mali
French forces have bombed Islamist militant positions in northern Mali. READ MORE…
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community on the World Wide Web
Source: ahmadiyya-islam.org | alislam.org ONLINE NETWORK Al Islam (International) Countries in Africa Mauritius (English) Tanzania (Swahili) Countries in Asia Bangladesh China India India (Gurmukhi, Punjabi) India (Malayalam) India (Tamil) Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Iran Pakistan Russia Saudi Arabia Turkey Uzbekistan Countries in Europe Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria France Germany Greece Iceland Italy […]
‘I Saved the Country’
Source: Spiegel: Many believe that Mali’s de facto leader Amadou Sanogo thrust the country into a deep crisis when he staged a coup a year ago. But that’s not how he sees it. In a SPIEGEL interview he says he helped a sick, old regime die, ushering in a new […]
Lawyer fights ‘widow sex’ tradition in Malawi
Source: CNN (CNN) — Lawyer and human rights activist Seodi White has long been an outspoken campaigner for gender justice in Malawi, a country where half its women are married before the age of 18. As the head of the Malawian chapter of Women in Law in Southern Africa (WLSA), […]
Mali 3-1 Ghana: Eagles stun Black Stars to win Afcon bronze
Source: Goal.Com Getty Images Mali won bronze at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations after defeating Ghana 3-1 in the third and fourth-place play-off on Saturday in Port Elizabeth. It was a rather quiet beginning to the game and a diving header from Samassa was enough to give Mali a […]
UN alarmed at Mali army abuse claim
Source: TOI UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations expressed alarm Friday over reported mob lynchings and other reprisal killings of Tuaregs and Arabs as the Malian army retakes control of the north of the country. Adama Dieng, a special adviser to UN leader Ban Ki-moon on the prevention of genocide, said […]
Timbuktu, Islam’s Ancient Seat Of Learning, Loses Priceless Manuscripts
Huff Post: Krista Larson and Michelle Faul. SEVARE, Mali — Timbuktu, the fabled desert city where retreating Muslim extremists destroyed ancient manuscripts, was a center of Islamic learning hundreds of years before Columbus landed in the Americas. The library held about 30,000 manuscripts of which only about one third had been […]
Afrighanistan?
Source> The Economist. AFTER 11 years spent waging war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, almost $1.5 trillion in direct costs and hundreds of thousands of lives lost, the Western public feels it has learned a hard lesson. It is more convinced than ever that even the best-intentioned foreign intervention […]
Merkel rules out German combat troops in Mali
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:
West Scrambles to Counter Islamist Offensive
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 […]
Africa `s Afghanistan
Source: Allafrica.com: What began ostensibly in January 2012 as just another rebellion by the Sahara desert’s Tuareg tribesmen has evolved into what media commentators are calling ‘Africa’s Afghanistan’. The Tuareg are Berbers, not Arabs, and are the indigenous population of much of the Central Sahara and Sahel. Their population is […]
Accused Criminals Languish After Islamist Amputations
Source: Jakarta Globe. Gao, Mali. Two gun-toting Islamists keep watch outside a hospital room in the desert city of Gao in northeast Mali. Inside, five young men languish on beds, recovering after they were each severed of a hand and a foot. The patient-prisoners are among the latest accused criminals […]
Women Suffer Behind Veil of Silence in Mali’s North
Source: Jakarta Globe. Gao, Mali. It was just six months ago that Toula, a young woman from Gao in northeastern Mali, could swim and do her laundry in the nearby Niger River. Not anymore. Since late March, her dusty desert town and others like it across Mali’s massive north have […]
ABC NEWS – EXTREME ISLAM IN MALI
Islamists Conduct Amputations in Mali By BABA AHMED and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali September 10, 2012 (AP) Islamic police said they used a stage in a public square to amputate the right hand and left foot of five accused thieves in a city of Mali on Monday, in […]