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Egypt
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Egypt Muslim scholars welcome Obama speech

afrol News, 4 June - Egypt's powerful Islamic Research Council today strongly applauded US President Barack Obama's speech to the Muslim World, which he gave today at the Cairo University, as a "historic" event.

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Egypt
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Egypt continues slaughtering pigs despite protests

afrol News, 13 May - The Egyptian authorities have slaughtered more than 26,000 pigs while more than 130, 000 are waiting in a much contested claim of trying to control the deadly swine flu (H1N1) strain in the north African state, Ministry of Health has reported.

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Somalia
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US condemns renewed clashes in Mogadishu

afrol News, 12 May - The US government has condemned the latest escalation of violence and attacks on the Somali Transitional Federal Government by armed militias in the country’s capital Mogadishu. Mogadishu became a battle field late Saturday when armed Islamist militias attacked governemnt forces to take control of the remaining part of the capital.

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Egypt
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Got you swine...!

afrol News, 4 May - Egyptian authorities' decision to cull all pigs in the country, estimated at over a quarter of a million has turned into a whole new war between the minoroty Christians and the dominant Islam nations.

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Kenya
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Kenya ready to counter attacks - deputy minister

afrol News, 27 April - The Kenyan government has ruled out threats by the Somali radical Islamist group, Al Shabaab, to invade Kenyan territories and introduce the Sharia law.

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» 19.03.2009 - Bin Laden urges Somalis to oust the president
» 17.02.2009 - British missionary in court again
» 21.01.2009 - Three Eritrean Christians die in military camps
» 05.12.2008 - Two Britons charged with sedition in Gambia
» 02.12.2008 - Egypt revokes ban on doctor's visas
» 01.12.2008 - Religious clashes victims laid to rest
» 12.11.2008 - Egypt contests doctor's conviction
» 07.11.2008 - Somali stoning victim was a mere child, not an adulterous woman
» 03.11.2008 - Morocco bans French magazine
» 28.10.2008 - Somali woman stoned to death for adultery
» 27.10.2008 - Pope to visit Cameroon and Angola next year
» 07.10.2008 - Trouser-wearing women beaten up in Sudan
» 16.09.2008 - Preacher arrested for having too many wives
» 01.09.2008 - Nigerian cleric accepts to bin 82 wives
» 25.08.2008 - SA relief workers detained in Uganda
» 20.08.2008 - UN condemns Algeria blast
» 18.08.2008 - Mauritania junta assures quick presidential poll
» 07.08.2008 - Gambia denounces Shia faith
» 17.07.2008 - African bishops shun conference in Canterbury
» 03.07.2008 - Algerians convicted for Christianity
» 02.07.2008 - Dozens killed in Chad religious clashes
» 30.06.2008 - Tussle over Ghana's presidential award
» 03.06.2008 - More believers detained in Eritrea
» 03.06.2008 - Gambian police arrests "gay tourists"
» 02.06.2008 - Senegal leader rules out dialogue with opposition
» 23.04.2008 - Sudan starts crucial census
» 11.04.2008 - Kony's concerns "legimitate"
» 10.04.2008 - Tutu condemns gay persecution
» 08.04.2008 - MP's death shocks Senegal
» 02.04.2008 - Doubts cast on Egypt polls
» 14.03.2008 - Chad, Sudan sign peace deal
» 14.03.2008 - Wade damns Islamophobia
» 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

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