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Ethiopian authorities have indicated an interest in accessing the IMF’s food shock window, the fund said.  More than 20 million Ethiopians, including people who fled their homes because of conflict in the country’s northern Tigray region, don’t have enough to…

Floods have destroyed harvest for this season, while nearly 1 million hectares of farmland across the region remain under water, with soil nutrients being washed away and setting the scene for an even worse crop production next season. Prolonged drought…

Afghan women were stopped from entering amusement parks in Kabul on Wednesday after the Taliban’s morality ministry said there would be restrictions on women being able to access public parks. Since taking over Afghanistan last year, Taliban have said women…

The Pakistani television channel, Baaghi TV, published, on its official website, an editorial in which it emphasized the immortal role of the Karbala incident and the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein bin Ali, peace be upon him, in the course…

International human rights organizations have called for intensifying efforts to pressure the Saudi authorities to release prisoners of conscience who are detained over demanding their fundamental freedoms.  The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention published on its website on…

Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi continues his scholarly meetings at the residence in the holy city of Qom . In the scholarly meeting on Tuesday, the 13th of Rabi’ul-Thani, a number of questions were asked to Ayatollah such as:…

In Central Florida, some mobile clinics and federally qualified health centers are serving low-income and uninsured patients in the area. One such healthcare outfit, called American Muslim Community Clinics (AMCC), demonstrates the capacity of grassroots organizations to reach poor and…

The Syrian artist, Riad Nawaf Al-Radi, said that he returned again to work on his project, which aims to prepare the largest Noble Quran in the world in a distinctive way, after a hiatus of about four years. Al-Radi confirmed…

The sixth edition of the Quran and Adhan (call to prayer) competition for Muslims in Northern Europe will be held in February.  The Imam Ali (AS) Islamic Center in Stockholm, Sweden, will host the contest from February 24 to 26,…

The number of people in Sri Lanka needing urgent humanitarian help has doubled to 3.4 million, the United Nations has said as it warned of a worsening food crisis in the south Asian country. Months of protests against high prices…