By Neelam Rahim Officials said more than 15,000 sheep drowned on Sunday in Sudan’s Red Sea port of Suakin after a...
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Morocco Bans ‘The Lady of Heaven’ Film
Umm Muhammed Umar A sacrilegious film, ‘The Lady of Heaven’, has been banned in Morocco. The film will not be screened...
Africa Report: Tensions rise in Rwanda, food scarcity in Africa and Kenyan elections
Raahil Sain 08:06:2022 In the Africa report on Radio Islam International political analyst, Stephanie Wolters...
Umm Muhammed Umar Senior Research Fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs, Stephanie Walters, was interviewed on Radio Islam’s ‘Africa Report’. Mali has withdrawn from the G5 Sahel in protest against ECOWAS sanctions, the latest in a series of...
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[LISTEN] Biden’s Deployment of Troops to Somalia Really a Business Decision
Umm Muhammed Umar Radio Islam spoke to Ebrahim Thembisa Fakude, Senior Research Fellow at Africa Asia Dialogue, about US President, Joe Biden's decision to send troops back to Somalia. While Ebrahim said that the troops were probably enroute to Somalia as the...
Concerned Africans Forum Speaks Out On Killing of Al Jazeera Journalist
By Umamah Bakharia The Concerned Africans Forum or CAF has spoken out against the shameful assassination of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli forces in Jenin in the occupied West Bank in Palestine. CAF says the sadistic forms of violence meted out...
UN Envoy Urges Mauritania To Enforce Anti-Slavery Law
By: Zahid Jadwat A United Nations (UN) human rights expert has urged the authorities in Mauritania to take immediate steps to enforce anti-slavery laws.Following a visit to the West African country, UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery...
Nigerian Ministers Resign En-Masse To Contest 2023 Elections
By: Zahid Jadwat At least ten of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's ministers have resigned after he instructed all ministers, ambassadors, agency heads and other political appointees to resign by May 16 if they intend to run for office in the 2023...
Africa’s Travel Indaba 2022: High Expectations Against Backdrop of Struggling Economy
By: Zahid Jadwat Africa's best travel and tourism show has kicked off in the coastal city of eThekwini with high expectations against the backdrop of a battered tourism sector and a struggling economy at large. Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu...
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Ethiopia: Government Says Reports That Tigrayan Forces Left Afar Are ‘Big Lies’
By: Zahid Jadwat Despite a spokesman for the Tigrayan forces announcing their departure earlier this week, the Ethiopian government said on Thursday that dissident Tigrayan forces are still in the neighbouring province of Afar. Tigrayan forces remained...
Iconic Kenyan Hotel To Close Down
By: Zahid Jadwat Kenya's iconic Hilton Hotel Nairobi, a multi-story structure that was once one of the capital city's tallest structures, is set to close in December, according to reports. The hotel was built in 1969, six years after Kenya gained independence...
Ethiopia: Russian Embassy Denies Recruiting Fighters for the War in Ukraine
Umm Muhammed Umar Hundreds of people are reported to have lined up this week outside the Russian embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, allegedly in the hope of being recruited to fight for Moscow in its war with Ukraine. The embassy, however, has dismissed claims it was...