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Thousands of people took to the streets after Friday prayers in the Muslim country of Somalia and neighboring Kenya, with protestors chanting anti-Israel slogans, Radio Garowe reports.
Hundreds of Somali demonstrators protested after Friday prayers in Mogadishu and a number of other towns in the war-torn Somalia against the Israeli raids on Gaza Strip in the Middle East.
African Protestant and evangelical churches have expressed disgust at the ongoing bloody violence between Israel and Palestine and called for its immediate end.
Mr. John-Kennedy Opara, Executive Secretary, Nigeria Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC) yesterday in Abuja, said that pilgrims would not be allowed to visit the volatile areas in Israel.
Algeria /Mauritania: Algeria will try to help unify Palestinians ahead of a possible Arab summit to support conflict-torn Gaza, Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci said.
Mukoma Wa Ngugi reflects on the absence of action by African governments against the Israeli invasion of Gaza and lambasts the divide between African Muslim and non-Muslim populations, calling for a solidarity of action.
Deputy Governor of Yobe State, Alhaji Ibrahim Geidam, has confirmed the death of five pilgrims from Yobe State in Mecca of Saudi Arabia shortly after completing the hajj exercise, while 2,725 pilgrims returned from Saudi Arabia
IT is shameful that in this day and age, the world is looking on while horror and brutality is unleashed on Palestinians in Gaza. Without doubt, the callous and indiscriminate killing of Palestinians in Gaza during the past weeks is a crime against humanity.
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) fiercely condemns officials from Al-Ahram Press for their refusal to print the latest edition of the opposition weekly "Sout al-Ummah," until its editor, Dr. Abdel Halim Kandil, had removed his article criticising the president and Egypt's stance on the crisis in Gaza.
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has called on the United Nations to take decisive actions against Israel as was done against Yugoslavia in the case of Kosovo.
THE African National Congress (ANC) yesterday called on South Africans to donate humanitarian aid to the besieged Palestinians in Gaza as Israeli forces continue their attacks there.
The Federal Government has called for peaceful resolutions of crisis in the Middle East, even as it said that it is not taking sides as Nigeria has excellent relationship with Israel and Palestine.
Botswana has broken her silence on Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip by calling on the Jewish state and Hamas to sit down and resolve their differences.
Minister of energy and power recently said at the Crans Montana forum Manama in Bahrain that President Ernest Koroma instituted the open government initiative in order to sensitize the citizens about government polices.
The Israeli invasion of Gaza is a case of a school-yard bully going after the little guy, pummeling him bloody just because he can.
AL-QAEDA had better hurry up if it wants to bring about the destruction of the west before the west implodes. The end-timers, waving Nostradamus or the Book of Revelation, predict the final signs of imminent Armageddon.
As the number of people killed in Israeli military invasion of Gaza rose to 500 yesterday, Isreali Defence Minister Ehud Barak has insisted that the offensive in the contentious strip will continue.
The devastating Israeli bombardment of Gaza in the past few days did not come as a surprise to anybody. Its scale and magnitude, however, were unexpected by almost everybody except its perpetrators.
THE final airlift of Muslim pilgrims from Mecca and Medina was yesterday concluded with the return of the last batch of the pilgrims.
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has appealed to both the Unites States and Britain to stop the on-going massacre of the Palestinians in Gaza by Israeli forces.
At least ten Nigerian pilgrims who embarked on the 2008 pilgrimage to the muslim"s holy city of Mecca are still in different hospitals in the holy land receiving treatment for various ailments.
Bafana Bafana midfielder Siyabonga Nkosi has clinched an 18-month contract in Israel with Maccabi Netanya.
A Tunisian cargo plane carrying emergency relief items for the population of Gaza, has landed on Saturday morning at the El Arich airport, North Sinai, in Egypt.
Thousands of Muslims in Kano, staged a peaceful rally and berated Israeli attack on Gaza, which resulted in the death of about four hundred people.
THE National Hajj Commission (NAHCOM) says no Nigerian pilgrim would be stranded in Saudi Arabia after the completion of all hajj rites in the holy land.
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