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Egyptian women take charge 9 Dec 2009 06:18 GMT
... - Her hair neatly tucked under a Muslim headscarf, Dawlat al-Amine practises aikido regularly in ... colleagues learn martial arts to protect other women. The blackclad "ladyguards" provide a niche service ... Amazons. But clients of the "ladyguards" include Egyptian actresses and pop divas, as well as ...
Stripper Blog: From North Africa, to the Middle East, to Kansas 9 Dec 2009 13:30 GMT
... man’s voice sustained each vowel in the Muslim call to prayer as he sang slowly ... and low, the grainy midday message of Islam reminded every ear, including mine, of the ... came Jillian C. York's tweet from a women's bathroom in Lebanon. “Beirut women's room graffiti:"those ...
The women who guard other women in conservative Egypt 9 Dec 2009 09:51 GMT
... – Her hair neatly tucked under a Muslim headscarf, Dawlat al-Amine practises aikido regularly in ... colleagues learn martial arts to protect other women. The blackclad "ladyguards" provide a niche service ... Amazons. But clients of the "ladyguards" include Egyptian actresses and pop divas, as well as ...
NEWS ALERT: Eritrea Detains 30 Christian Women, Group Says 9 Dec 2009 11:07 GMT
... Eritrea have detained dozens, mostly elderly, Christian women in the capital Amara as part of ... the Lutheran Evangelical Church of Eritrea and Muslim groups to register, although within recognized Christian ... of medical attention. ICC’s Regional Manager for Africa and South Asia, Jonathan Racho said his ...
Who Are The Taliban? 9 Dec 2009 02:58 GMT
... as "students". In 1994, Afghan and Pakistani Muslim students, now known as "Taliban,” who comprise ... guidelines: the men must wear beards, the women, veils, and Islamic law is strictly enforced. We in America ...
Factbox: Conflict in Somalia 9 Dec 2009 05:37 GMT
... 2006, Islamist militia loyal to the Somalia Islamic Courts Council seized Mogadishu after defeating U.S.-backed ... the Kenyan border after rival insurgents, Hizbul Islam, fled. The two groups were former allies ... rival clerics and publicly stoned to death women accused of adultery. -- In 2004 lawmakers elected ...
On-screen niqab 9 Dec 2009 11:06 GMT
... Until recently you would never have seen women presenting television programmes dressed from head to ... doing anything." Wahabism, the strain of Sunni Islam that is officially practised in Saudi Arabia, ... do with Islam". The majority of moderate Muslim scholars agree with him. But Ms Barqi ...
Al-Shabab 9 Dec 2009 04:30 GMT
... mid-2004 as the military wing of the Islamic Court Union, a radical group that controlled ... and maintains control through often brutal methods. Women accused of adultery are publicly stoned to ... Ethiopian troops. Although Somalia is a majority Muslim nation, its faith has traditionally been far ...
Qaeda claims it has French, Spanish hostages 9 Dec 2009 05:13 GMT
... For the first time, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said it was holding all ... three Spanish volunteers, two men and a women, were travelling in Mauritania in a convoy ... Nouakchott had attributed the abductions to armed Islamists, making a connection with the kidnapping of ...
Gates Dissembles on Afghan History 9 Dec 2009 04:30 GMT
... the ISI readied its own army of Islamic extremists drawn from Pashtun refugee camps inside ... Afghanistan. Their rule was especially devastating to women who had made gains toward equal rights under ... who shared the Taliban’s fundamentalist view of Islam, was welcomed back because bin Laden and ...
Targeting Civilians in Gaza 9 Dec 2009 13:18 GMT
... with numerous others, including: -- PCHR's "Through Women's Eyes" on the war's effect on women; ... and six women. On June 19, 2008, Egyptian mediators negotiated a six-month truce with the ... in some cases heavily. Included were the Islamic University, al-Azhar University's Faculty of Agriculture in ...
Sarkozy Enters Swiss Minarets Row 9 Dec 2009 06:19 GMT
... and are used by the to call Muslims to prayer: Instead of condemning the Swiss ... the all-over garment worn by some Muslim women, when he declared: Christian, Jew or Muslim... ... whose former colonies in North and West Africa contain large Muslim populations and provide many ...
What Fate of Uganda's Troops in Somalia Reveals About Our Politics [column] 9 Dec 2009 06:53 GMT
... another deadly attack, this time on the African Union peacekeepers, where several members of the ... East African security. Right now, the radical Islamist group Al-Shabaab that controls most of Somalia ... don't expect them to return with local women in tow and chicken dangling from their backs, ...
Workshop on property rights of spouses bill opens. 9 Dec 2009 05:30 GMT
... The workshop is being organized by the African Women Lawyers Association(AWLA) in collaboration with LAWA -Alumnae ... guided by multiple laws including customary law, Islamic law and statute. She explained that, under ...
Fragile peace may unravel in Southern Sudan 9 Dec 2009 08:24 GMT
... $1 a day, and one in seven women who become pregnant die from complications, said ... again from 1983 to 2005 pitted black Africans in the south who follow Christianity or ... against a northern government dominated by Arab Muslims. Both sides signed a peace deal in ...

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AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - December 12th funeral services for White Fathers missionary killed in South Africa, active in promoting needy of the country; fourth Catholic priest killed in South Africa [09 Dec 2009 - 13:58]
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Dalai Lama urges Australian MPs to visit Tibet [09 Dec 2009 - 12:40]
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Islamic group buys former fire station [09 Dec 2009 - 12:37]
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Rabbi who incited refusal summoned [09 Dec 2009 - 14:43]
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