Africa

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…

Without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement exacerbated by rising temperatures, resource scarcity and food insecurity, the UN Refugee Agency, warned on Wednesday. Communities across the Sahel rely…

The Deputy of the Office of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi in Majunga, Madagascar, Shaykh Hassan al-Najafi started an Islamic mission in a number of towns and villages, and met with a number of the Ahlulbayt followers. The Ahlulbayt Center, affiliated with…

The first book in jurisprudence of the Supreme Religious Authority, Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, was published in the French language in Cameroon, Africa. The book titled ‘ QUESTIONS DES MUSULMANS EN OCCIDENTS’ is a set of questions for Muslims living…

The Shia convert Ramadan Al-Sajjad Boninga announced the construction of the first mosque for the followers of the Ahlulbayt (peace be upon them) in the Republic of Congo-Brazzaville, to host activities and events and hold the holy Husseini rituals. Boninga…

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…

The administration of the Yaya Keita Arabic and English Junior and Senior High School gifted a 40-foot container of the Holy Quran copies to the National Muslims Council of Liberia, NMC, according to media outlets. The proprietor of the school,…

Thousands of children fleeing fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are at grave risk in overcrowded and unsanitary camps for internally displaced people (IDPs), UNICEF warned today. About 100,000 people who have been displaced over the…

Former Egyptian antiquities minister Zahi Hawass said the calls to prayer shouldn’t be amplified on microphones to high levels as they disturb tourists. “Egypt should protect tourists from being disturbed by the Islamic call to prayer”, top Egyptian archaeologist and…