Gambia says female govt workers must wear headscarves
Source: Reuters Gambia on Tuesday ordered female government employees to wear headscarves at work in a sign that the West African country is embracing a Muslim identity one month after […]
More than 70 killed in Nigeria bombings, suicide attacks
Source: China Daily LAGOS – More than 70 people have been killed and more than a hundred others injured in sporadic bombings and suicide attacks that struck northern Nigeria since […]
W. African leaders seek ban on full-face veil to prevent attacks
Source: Yahoo News Abuja (AFP) – West African leaders said Thursday they were seeking to “forbid” women wearing full-face veils in an effort to curb the growing number of female […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission Ghana: “Don’t allow mosques to be used for partisan politics”
Source: graphic.com.gh The Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana, has appealed to Imams not to allow themselves and their mosques to be used for partisan politics. According to the General Secretary of the […]
Africa: The AYAAG [Ahmadi Youths All Africa Games] Project
As part of activities marking the 100th year of the establishment of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Nigeria, the Majlis Khuddam is organising the Ahmadi Youths All Africa Games (AYAAG) […]
IMF policies blamed for Ebola spread in West Africa
BBC News: Spending cuts imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may have contributed to the rapid spread of Ebola in three West African states, UK-based researchers say. It had led to “under-funded, insufficiently staffed, and poorly prepared health systems” in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, they said. READ MORE… […]
Homeopaths offer services ‘to help fight’ Ebola epidemic in west Africa
Source: The Guardian from 2014 By Sarah Boseley, who is the health editor of the Guardian. She has won a number of awards for her work on HIV/Aids in Africa, including the One World Media award (twice) and the European section of the Lorenzo Natali prize, awarded by the European […]
Ebola outbreak: World Bank chief appeals for volunteers
The president of the World Bank has appealed for thousands of medical workers to volunteer and help contain the growing Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Jim Yong Kim said at least 5,000 medics and support staff were needed to beat the disease. Many potential recruits were too scared to travel […]
Ebola outbreak: Spain investigates new case
Investigations are under way at a hospital in Madrid after a Spanish nurse became the first person known to have contracted the deadly Ebola virus outside West Africa. The nurse had treated two Spanish missionaries who died of the disease after being flown home from the region. Three other people, […]
Ebola outbreak: Eid celebrations subdued in West Africa
Celebrations in West Africa for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha have been badly affected by the Ebola outbreak. Reports from Guinea say public places used for prayers are deserted while religious leaders in Sierra Leone told Muslims not to shake hands or embrace. Meanwhile, a French nurse who got […]
Ebola contained in Nigeria, Senegal – US health officials
The Ebola virus may have been contained in Nigeria and Senegal, US health authorities say, after no new cases were reported there for almost a month. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say the outbreak could be declared over in Nigeria next month. It continues, however, in other parts […]
Ghanaian Soccer Fans, Claiming To Be Muslims, Request Asylum In Brazil During World Cup
About 200 Ghanaian soccer fans have requested asylum after they entered Brazil on tourist visas to watch the World Cup, media reports said Thursday, citing federal police… The Ghanaians reportedly said that they are Muslims and are “fleeing the violent conflicts between different Muslim groups,” in their home country. READ […]
Muslims in West Africa – a historical review
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 […]
German foundation funds IU Bloomington professor’s research in West Africa (on the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community)
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 […]
Mali Islamists push south, threaten France amid new strikes
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 […]
ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE in MALI
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 […]
West Africa approves sending 3,300 troops to battle militants in Mali
By Alan Boswell McClatchy Newspapers NAIROBI, Kenya — Earlier this summer, Mali’s Islamist militant northern rebels abandoned their southernmost position, the town of Douentza, some 100 miles northeast up the road from Mopti, where the Malian army had retreated this spring after being routed out of the northern two-thirds of […]
ICD to open two new Islamic banks in Africa
DJIBOUTI: ARAB NEWS Saturday 10 November 2012 The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), a private sector arm of the Islamic Development Bank Group, is opening two new Islamic banks in Mali and Benin in 2013, to provide Islamic financial services in the areas currently greatly […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria graduates 43 Hafiz-e-Quran and 22 Missionaries
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Potsin T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School celebrates 40th anniversary
Gomoa Potsin (C/R), Nov. 4, GNA – Mrs Ama Benyiwaa-Addo, Central Regional Minister has acknowledged with admiration the invaluable and collective efforts with which stakeholders have managed and sustained the […]