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Of Western hypocrisy, Obdurate tyrants and Changing times

Of Western hypocrisy, Obdurate tyrants and Changing times

As the Bob Dylan song goes, the times they are “achanging”. But, do the lowly tyrants and dictators of our world, or those Western...
Silence over Ethiopian land grab broken

Silence over Ethiopian land grab broken

A Saudi Arabian investor has broken the culture of silence surrounding a widely criticized farmland acquisition by foreign investors in Ethiopia, which had hitherto...
Privatizing Somalia’s war on Piracy

Privatizing Somalia’s war on Piracy

Over 2,000 Somali nationals have been recruited to fight pirates who are terrorizing the African coast under a multimillion-dollar program financed by several Arab...
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Several Christians hastily convert to Islam for clothes

A group of Christians has suddenly converted to Islam in order to receive free items donated by a Dubai-based company and the United Arab...
Wikileaks could create Iranian isolationism

Wikileaks could create Iranian isolationism

Revelations from leaked U.S. diplomatic cables that some Arab countries called on the U.S. to take military action against Iran and that Israel's Mossad...
Rape in Mecca: Algerians seethe with anger

Rape in Mecca: Algerians seethe with anger

The alleged rape and murder of a young Franco-Algerian girl in Mecca has set Algerian public opinion ablaze. An investigation was opened on Thursday...
Rage over Saudi ban on Mecca pilgrimage for Moroccan women

Rage over Saudi ban on Mecca pilgrimage for Moroccan women

Rage, incomprehension, accusations... Moroccan and foreign bloggers have multiplied attacks against Saudi Arabia after their decision, in early August, to ban young Moroccan women...
Al-Qaida terrorist threats and South African World Cup readiness

Al-Qaida terrorist threats and South African World Cup readiness

Terrorism threats have led to a tightening of security measures ahead of the the World Cup scheduled to take place in less than a...
Nigeria: Senator marries 13-year old, rights activists appalled

Nigeria: Senator marries 13-year old, rights activists appalled

A Nigerian senator, who introduced and implemented Sharia Law in a Northern Nigeria state, has married a 13 year old girl from Egypt, and...
Somalia: Livestock-based economy receives major boost

Somalia: Livestock-based economy receives major boost

Somalia’s livestock-based economy has received a major boost as its major market, Saudi Arabia lifts its 11 year ban on imported livestock from Somalia....
Egypt’s niqab ban a religious tug-of-war

Egypt’s niqab ban a religious tug-of-war

Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, Grand Sheikh of the al-Azhar mosque in Egypt, last Saturday ordered a schoolgirl to remove her niqab (Islamic veil), whilst visiting...
Tanker carrying 2m barrels of oil hijacked by Somali pirates

Tanker carrying 2m barrels of oil hijacked by Somali pirates

Pirates on Monday took control of a huge Saudi Arabian crude oil tanker in the Arabian Sea, the US Navy said in a statement,...
Islamic heads say women have the right to fight back

Islamic heads say women have the right to fight back

Sunni Islams highest authority, Egyptian Sheikh Abdel Hamid Al Atrash, has said that women have the right to fight back against their husbands if...
Where is the Nigerian President ?

Where is the Nigerian President ?

Questions are been asked as Nigerians await the return of their President, Umaru Yar'Adua, from his supposed two-week trip to Saudi Arabia. His delayed...
Nigerian President goes under the knife

Nigerian President goes under the knife

President Umaru Yar'Adua has successfully undergone surgery suspected to be a kidney related ailment in a Saudi Arabia hospital. It was officially reported that the...
Coalition against discrimination launched in Morocco

Coalition against discrimination launched in Morocco

Representatives from several Arab countries met in Casablanca on Wednesday to launch an initiative against all forms of racism and xenophobia. A ceremony of a...
Development banks more and more efficient

Development banks more and more efficient

Six major multilateral development banks (MDBs) have released the third report of their Common Performance Assessment System (COMPAS), a statement by the African Development...