Month: June 2012

Tandis que les leaders européens et africains continuent de mettre en garde contre les risques d’une partition du Mali, les mouvements rivaux qui appuient la création d’un nouvel État indépendant dans le nord du pays […]

Le conflit qui oppose les forces gouvernementales yéménites aux militants du groupe Ansar Al Shariah dans le Sud a aggravé la situation humanitaire dans un pays où près de la moitié de la population est […]

The conflict between Yemeni government forces and the militant Ansar Al Shariah group in southern Yemen has worsened the humanitarian crisis in a country where nearly half of the population is facing food insecurity and […]

Every year, somewhere between US$200 billion and $1 trillion are spent in “mandatory” alms and voluntary charity across the Muslim world, Islamic financial analysts estimate. At the low end of the estimate, this is 15 […]

A hunger strike by about 1,550 Palestinians in Israeli prisons ended with an agreement on 14 May, in which Israel committed to meeting some of the prisoners’ demands in exchange for security guarantees. “If this […]

Between the foreign aid of oil-rich Gulf States and the billions of dollars spent by Muslims in “mandatory” alms and charity every year, the Muslim world is by all accounts a huge reservoir of potential […]

Whether by his own design or through an accident of Fate, former President Rawlings is really ill-at-ease—and with his wife in tow, he is suffering the pang! We are told that he spoke “in a […]

It was rather amusingly annoying to hear Ghana’s longtime strongman, Mr. Jeremiah John Rawlings glibly blame the pilot of the Nigerian cargo plane that crash-landed at the sole international airport in Accra over the weekend […]