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» 14.03.2008 - Islam prohibits terrorism
» 13.03.2008 - Genocide priest jailed for life
» 27.02.2008 - Activists petition Morocco
» 25.02.2008 - Senegalese homosexuals flee
» 21.02.2008 - Terrorist risks deportation
» 05.02.2008 - Uganda combats demons
» 05.02.2008 - Senegal gay arrest condemned
» 04.02.2008 - Tremors strike Great Lakes
» 31.01.2008 - Libyan detainee battles illness
» 23.01.2008 - Mass circumcision in Rwanda
» 23.01.2008 - Prayer meeting ends in clash
» 14.01.2008 - Rwandans put away genocide
» 10.01.2008 - Kenyan ministers take oath
» 31.12.2007 - Senegal lost powerful cleric
» 30.12.2007 - Kibaki wins Kenya polls
» 20.12.2007 - Sudan leader preaches peace
» 20.12.2007 - Marriage scourge exposed
» 20.12.2007 - Chief cleric backs hajj probe
» 11.12.2007 - Ghana to arrest hajj committee
» 19.11.2007 - Somalis launch public gay site
» 19.10.2007 - Cry for Ugandan gays
» 16.10.2007 - Africa's ARV treatment fails
» 08.10.2007 - Nigeria court bans satirical play
» 17.09.2007 - Kenya's Muslims oppose condoms
» 06.09.2007 - Somalis discuss emancipation
» 03.09.2007 - Ghana cleric draws sword at journalists
» 24.08.2007 - ‘Journalists are like prophets’
» 17.08.2007 - Death sentence awaits Libyan protesters
» 14.08.2007 - Somalia: UN urged to deploy troops
» 08.08.2007 - Moroccan weeklies in trouble for “disrespecting king”
» 07.06.2007 - Kenya police shoot 12 in sect violence
» 22.03.2007 - Another religious feud in Nigeria
» 07.03.2007 - Another Rwandan priest faces genocide charges
» 23.02.2007 - Egypt's jailing of Islam-insulting blogger causes uproar
» 19.02.2007 - Ban on hijab begins in Somalia
» 15.01.2007 - Ethiopia gears up for millennium party
» 15.01.2007 - Moroccan journalists fined for blaspheming jokes
» 11.01.2007 - Nigeria to hang preacher
» 02.01.2007 - Time for music and dhikr in Somalia
» 22.12.2006 - Christmas "unique in West Africa"
» 15.12.2006 - Egypt's counters Islamists
» 12.12.2006 - "Witchcraft" an excuse for child abuse in Angola
» 08.12.2006 - Morocco jails 14 Islamists
» 08.12.2006 - African Muslim clerics divided on condom use
» 01.12.2006 - World's oldest religion discovered in Botswana
» 01.12.2006 - Gambia pounces on prostitutes
» 20.11.2006 - Somalia Islamists join terror networks
» 17.11.2006 - Veil controversy grips Egypt
» 17.11.2006 - Khat-fight in Somalia questions Islamist position
» 17.11.2006 - Rwanda priest convicted of genocide, rape
» 15.11.2006 - Islamist ambush in Mauritania polls
» 25.10.2006 - Togo President demonstrates reconciliation
» 17.10.2006 - Suicide bombers "heading for Somaliland"
» 16.10.2006 - Islamists burn Somaliland newspaper
» 11.10.2006 - Somali Islamists urged to respect press freedom
» 09.10.2006 - Somali Islamists swear to "spread Islam worldwide"
» 06.10.2006 - Religious riots in Ethiopia leave at least nine dead
» 05.10.2006 - "Islamists threaten Somaliland from within"
» 28.09.2006 - Somaliland govt fears country may fall to Islamists
» 26.09.2006 - Growing popular resistance to Somalia's Islamists
» 12.09.2006 - Sudan press ordered silent on murdered editor
» 11.09.2006 - Mogadishu Islamic courts crack down on press
» 07.09.2006 - Late Kenyan cardinal could be declared saint
» 06.09.2006 - Kidnapped Sudanese editor found beheaded
» 05.09.2006 - Ghana turns down homosexuals' bid for recognition
» 04.09.2006 - Somali Islamists ban music; "intimidated" top artist agrees
» 09.06.2006 - Somali Islamist leader vague on terrorism in interview
» 01.06.2006 - Tanzanian church still opposes condoms, sex education
» 04.05.2006 - Women preachers appointed in Morocco
» 10.04.2006 - Pro-gay church community established in Kenya, Uganda
» 07.04.2006 - Secrets of Judas, Jesus kept in Egypt for 1700 years
» 03.04.2006 - Egypt's top mufti bans statues
» 27.02.2006 - Muslims vandalise Mozambican weekly over cartoons
» 24.02.2006 - Tutu defends resistance against racism, homophobia, oppression
» 22.02.2006 - Dozens dead in religious violence in southern Nigeria
» 10.02.2006 - Egyptian paper published cartoons in October
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