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The Muslim Public Affairs Centre (MPAC) has expressed concern over the arrest, detention and declaration of six Muslim missionaries as 'suspected terrorists' by the Inspector General of Police (IG), Mike Okiro and the FCT Police Commissioner, Mr. John Haruna, saying the police action "indicates extreme and institutional intolerance and victimisation of the Muslim community. "
The Security Council today voiced concern at the lack of progress in freezing the financial assets available to former Liberian president Charles Taylor, now on trial at the United Nations-backed court for Sierra Leone for war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as to his family and associates.
Exploring Somalia's fate under the Bush administration's war on terror, Matthew Blood argues that the US has simply taken an already brutalised people and brutalised them even more. With warlordism, criminality, and piracy ever increasing, the author ponders whether the marked anti-Western sentiment and greater radicalisation of Islamic authority in the country will lead to violent future backlash ...
Six itinerant foreign Muslim preachers have been arrested by the police in Abuja on suspicion of their possible links with Al-Qaida, the Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro said in Akure on Monday.
The Gambia Football Association has written world football governing body FIFA informing them of the alleged threat to harm the Scorpions contingent in Algeria.
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