Africa

Gunmen attacked a mosque in Nigeria’s volatile northwestern state of Katsina on Saturday, killing a dozen worshipers and kidnapping several others, according to news reports. The unidentified assailants arrived at Maigamji mosque on motorbikes on Saturday night, and started shooting…

A report issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) revealed that no less than 193 million people on the planet, including Africa, are threatened by hunger and lack of basic foodstuffs, especially grains, as a…

The head of the Halal club at the Moroccan Association of Exporters, Adnan al-Kedari, confirmed that Morocco aspires to strengthen its presence in the international halal market, which has gained great importance in the global competitive environment thanks to its…

The Ahlulbayt Center, affiliated with the Shirazi Religious Authority in the city of Majunga, Madagascar,  celebrated the birth anniversary of Lady Zainab (peace be upon her). The celebration was attended by the representative of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi, Sheikh Radi Wasram,…

After the official opening last week of the International Exhibition and Museum of the Biography of the Prophet, Islamic Civilization and the Status of the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, at the headquarters of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific…

The community of Casa Kunda in the West Coast Region of Gambia opened a new Quranic School last week. The school was funded by IHHNL based in the Netherlands through CHRO –Gambia.  The construction works were coordinated and supervised by…

Somalia’s army have killed at least 100 Al-Shabab fighters in an operation in the central Middle Shabelle region, the Information Ministry said Saturday, days after another 49 Al-Shabab militants were killed in the southern part of the lower Shabelle region.…

No fewer than 18.3 million Nigerian children are currently identified to have lacked access to the four walls of the classrooms, UNICEF said in a statement on Saturday. According to the statement “discrimination and exclusion deepen intergenerational deprivation and poverty…

An analytical article published by the Nigerian website (HumAngle Media), on Friday, acknowledged that the extremist fatwas of Ibn Taymiyyah are the first reason for the emergence of the takfiri terrorist groups that plague Islamic countries and the world. The…

Muslims in Garissa, Northern Kenya, held prayers for divine intervention against a long-running drought. A lack of rainfall over the last four rainy seasons has 378,000 people on the brink of starvation. Kenya’s National Drought and Weather Authority says there…