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By Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA): The al-Shabaab terrorist group stormed several towns in southwestern Somalia along the border with Ethiopia, a security official confirmed on Thursday, fearing heavy losses in the ensuing clashes with security forces from both sides. Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shahaab militants attacked the towns of Aato, Yeed, and Washaqo in the province of […]

18th Jul 2022

Somalia: Suicide car bombing by Al-Shabaab kills 3, wounds 14

By Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) :At least three people were killed and more than 14 others injured when a suicide car bomb blast rocked the town of Jowhar on Sunday, officials said. A police officer in Jowhar told Anadolu Agency that it was a suicide car bomb attack that targeted Nur Dob hotel, killing […]

5th Jul 2022

Somalia: 200 children have died since January from drought-caused malnutrition

By Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA): The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said late Monday that at least 200 children in Somalia have died of malnutrition since January, with the country witnessing “catastrophic food insecurity” for the first time since 2017. Drought conditions have deteriorated following an unprecedented fourth consecutive […]

30th Jun 2022

Libya: 20 migrants found dead in the desert

TRIPOLI, Libya (AA): Twenty bodies for people believed to be migrants were found in Libya’s desert close to the border with Chad, according to the Libyan authorities on Wednesday. In a statement, the Ambulance Service said the bodies were found inside a pickup truck 310 kilometers south of Kufra city. It said the truck is […]

26th Jun 2022

27 die trying to cross land border from Morocco to Spain

By Alyssa McMurtry OVIEDO, Spain (AA): The death toll of migrants who died trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla rose to 27 on Saturday, according to the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH). Around 2,000 migrants, many from Sudan, tried to cross the militarized border fence on Friday. At […]

21st Jun 2022

Mali: Terrorists kill 132 villagers in weekend attack

By James Tasamba KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): Suspected terrorists raided several villages in central Mali over the weekend, killing at least 132 civilians, the government confirmed Monday. The attack occurred on Saturday overnight and targeted the villages of Diallassagou, Dianweli, Deguessagou and surrounding areas in the Bankass circle, according to a government statement. “The cumulative […]

16th Jun 2022

Mali: Daesh/ISIS terrorists kill 22 people in northeast

By Aurore Bonny DOUALA, Cameroon (AA): More than 20 people, including displaced people, were killed on Sunday near Menaka in northeastern Mali, a pro-government armed group said Wednesday. “Armed men broke into a camp not far from the locality of Izingaz, commune of Ihinita, circle of Tidermene, Menaka region, on June 12, 2022, and proceeded […]

15th Jun 2022

African leaders want embargo exemptions for wheat, fertilizer imports from Russia

By James Tasamba KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): West African leaders on Tuesday demanded exemptions from a ban on wheat and fertilizer imports from Russia, whose supply chains were interrupted following its war on Ukraine. Speaking at the 8th edition of the Africa CEO Forum in Ivory Coast’s economic capital Abidjan, Senegal’s President and African Union […]

14th Jun 2022

Burkina Faso: 100 civilians killed in northern region attack

By James Tasamba KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): At least 100 people were killed when armed insurgents attacked a northern district of Burkina Faso, close to the border with Niger, over the weekend, the government confirmed on Monday. “Terrorists attacked civilians in Seytenga commune, Sahel region … The army has so far found 50 bodies,” Lionel Bilgo, […]

4th Jun 2022

Uganda: Unique shrine unites Muslims and Christians

By Godfrey KAMPALA, Uganda (AA): A shrine in the central Ugandan village of Namugongo, 12 kilometers (9 miles) from the capital Kampala, is perhaps a unique place in the world, invoking equal veneration from both Christians and Muslims. Every year in June, thousands of Ugandans and pilgrims from other African countries belonging to both communities […]

27th May 2022

Burkina Faso: Armed attackers kill 50 civilians

By James Tasamba KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): At least 50 civilians have been killed by unidentified gunmen in the town of Madjoari in eastern Burkina Faso, an officially said Thursday. Residents from Madjoari in Kompienga province bordering Benin were heading to Nadiagou in the town of Pama, fleeing violence, when they were targeted Wednesday by […]

26th May 2022

Senegal: Fire at hospital kills 11 newborns: President Macky Sall

By Aurore Bonny DOUALA, Cameroon (AA): Eleven newborn babies died in a fire in the neonatal unit of a hospital in the western Senegalese city of Tivaouane, which is about 50 miles northeast of Dakar, the capital, the country’s president said late Wednesday. “I have just learned with pain and dismay about the deaths […]

18th May 2022

Algerian lawmakers seek to criminalize normalization with Israel

By AbdulRazzaq bin Abdullah ALGIERS, Algeria (AA): Algerian lawmakers on Tuesday submitted a bill criminalizing normalization with Israel, including articles prohibiting travel or any direct or indirect contact with Tel Aviv. Youssef Ajesa, a lawmaker from the Movement of Society for Peace, told Anadolu Agency that he “lodged on behalf of his party’s group of […]

16th May 2022

Burkina Faso: 43 dead in weekend attacks across the country

By James Tasamba KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): At least 43 people were killed over the weekend in separate attacks attributed to terrorists in Burkina Faso, local media reported Sunday. The first attack occurred between Salmossi and Markoye in the province of Oudalan in the Sahel region, leaving six people dead, including five army auxiliaries and one […]

1st May 2022

Ethiopians observe grand iftar on capital streets, decry communal violence

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) Over half a million people broke fast on the streets in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Friday in solidarity with the Muslim community, which is observing fast during the holy month of Ramadan. On the somber occasion, people chanted slogans and condemned the heinous attack, in which miscreants torched […]

29th Apr 2022

Ethiopia: 20 Muslims killed in cemetery in Amhara region by Christians

(Agencies): At least 20 Muslims were killed, a mosque torched, Muslim businesses destroyed in Amhara region, northern Ethiopia, Tuesday. Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council on Thursday urged the government to probe attacks against Muslims in the northern city of Gonda. According to Anadolu Agency, an eye witness told them that at least 40 Muslims were […]

27th Apr 2022

Wheat prices in Africa up 60% due to Russia-Ukraine war: AfDB

By James Tasamba KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): The Russia-Ukraine war has disrupted wheat exports, driving wheat prices up by 60% in Africa, the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) said Tuesday, warning that the continent will lose up to $11 billion worth of food due to the conflict. “Already, the price of wheat has gone […]

24th Mar 2022

Somalia: Female lawmaker among 15 killed in Al-Shabaab terrorist attacks

By Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA): At least 15 people, including female lawmaker Amina Mohamed Abdi, were killed in bomb blasts in the city of Beledweyne late Wednesday, police said. Abdullahi Ahmed, a local police officer in the region, told Anadolu Agency that there were two explosions, which also wounded several people. The bombings […]

20th Feb 2022

Mali: 40 civilians killed in northern Mali

By James Tasamba KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): About 40 civilians were killed this week when armed insurgents simultaneously attacked several villages in the northern Mali region, media reports said Friday. “Several armed men, probably from terror groups, attacked several villages in the rural commune of Tessit, in the Gao region, killing about 40 civilians,” the […]

15th Feb 2022

Libyan crisis deepens as Tobruk-based parliament chooses new premier

By Aydogan Kalabalik TRIPOLI, Libya (AA): The crisis in Libya has deepened with the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) Parliament in the country’s east choosing former Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha as prime minister last Thursday, while current Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh has vowed to continue in the post. The failure to hold discussions […]

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Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims. It was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.