By Cara Gift Luckson Aug 5, 2023 A week of missteps and communication breakdowns pushed an important American ally toward the Kremlin Niger’s president hid behind a bulletproof door of his official residence and talked over a phone he assumed was monitored. To anxious French and American
Amnesty International has reported that extensive war crimes are being committed in Sudan as the conflict between the Rapid Support Forces and Sudanese Armed Forces continues to ravage the country. 04/08/2023 The report, Death Came To Our Home’: War Crimes and Civilian Suffering In Sudan, documents mass civilian casualties in both deliberate and indiscriminate
07/08/2023 Mali and Burkina Faso will send a joint official delegation to coup-hit Niger on Monday in a show of solidarity between the nations – all of whom are ruled by juntas. Meanwhile a source close to regional bloc Ecowas said an immediate military intervention to restore Niger’s toppled president was not envisaged. The delegation, announced […]
Thirty-three people were arrested in a popular spot among the LGBT+ community in Valencia, Venezuela on July 23. After the arrest, the people’s names, photos and ID cards were shared in the media and online. Since being released, they are still awaiting legal proceedings. 04/08/2023 – 14:39 – rfi On July 23, police arrested 33 […]
Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, the commander of Niger’s presidential guards unit, was appointed head of state on 28 July by a governing council set up by military forces that ousted President Mohamed Bazoum. 29/07/2023 2 min The 62-year-old general is from Niger’s western region of Tillaberic, close to the border with Mali. He studied at a […]
August 7, 2023 This article is an excerpt from IGI’s new translation of Imam al-Ghazali’s Kimiya-e-Sa’adat (The Alchemy of Happiness), a new translation of this famous work into English from the original Persian. This text will be published in the near future. O BELOVED! Know that giving zakat comprises one of the religion’s principal pillars, […]
AUGUST 6, 2023 The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has instructed Umrah pilgrims not to sleep in the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) to avoid congestion as other Muslims are coming to perform Umrah. The ministry also stated that it is against the law to sleep in the Grand Mosque. Ministry said in the post on X (formerly […]
AUGUST 6, 2023 The hijab controversy in India’s Karnataka now casts a shadow on Narendra Modi’s BJP-ruled Tripura. There has been a complaint that Muslim girls wearing hijabs were not allowed to enter a school in Vishalgarh of the state. In this incident, other students were also beaten up for standing by the students.Play VideoClose […]
By: Siraj Islam Mufti – Islamicity May 27, 2023 Conflict in the Middle East (photo: istock by Getty Images) Key Points: A May 27, 2021 article by the famous Carnegie Endowment for International Peace highlighted the contradictions of American foreign policy in the Middle East under the above heading. It concluded that the United States suffered from a […]
By Aslam Abdullah – Islamicity Aug 6, 2023 Medina was still a city with a non-Muslim majority as the total number of Muslims in Medina some 1445 years ago was not more than 75. Yet, at the command of God, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and his companion Abu Bakr (rta) traveled to this city to implement […]