Yemen rejects UN envoy’s peace proposals
Yemen rejects UN envoy’s peace proposals Yemeni government has rejected the peace proposals submitted recently by Martin Griffiths, the Special...
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Abu Dhabi supports low-income countries, suspends debt service repayment
Abu Dhabi Fund has suspended debt repayment by low-income countries. While disclosing this on Sunday July 12, 2020, Mohammed Saif...
UNESCO to review Hagia Sophia status
The World Heritage Committee under the recommendation of UNESCO will review the status of Hagia Sophia which has been turned...
Ennahda official advises Tunisia’s PM to resign
The head of the Shura Council of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party has advised Prime Minister Elyas Al-Fakhfakh to resign. The leader...
Muslim woman partners Christian foundation, distributes food items to teachers, others
A Muslim woman, Mrs Haleemah Olamade Ahmad, has partnered Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace, to support people with food items...
WHO appoints 2 women to lead pandemic panel
WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has appointed former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen...
OIC approves new financial assistance for 15 projects
Dr. Yousef A. Al-Othaimeen, Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has approved new financial assistance for fifteen developmental...
WHO acknowledges evidence of airborne spread of Covid-19
The World Health Organization has acknowledged evidence emerging of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus. This was disclosed on...
Richmond keen on getting rid of symbols of oppression, removes one more Confederate statue
A monument depicting James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart, the then commander of the Cavalry Corps of Robert E. Lee’s Army...
WFP to assist hungry people as coronavirus devastates poor nations
The United Nations World Food Programme has announced a massive rise in the number of hungry people it plans to...
WHO reports over one million Covid-19 cases in Eastern Mediterranean Region
The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed more than one million cases of COVID-19 in the 22 countries of WHO's...
TİKA supports the Kingdom of Eswatini’s fight against COVID19
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) has provided modern sewing machines to the Southern African country of the Kingdom of...
World Bank: Nigeria may face worst recession in 40 years
World Bank: Nigeria may face worst recession in 40 years The World Bank, on Thursday, said the recent collapse in...
OPINION | KNOWING ABOUT OUR SOLUTION
Recently, I was in a conversation with a friend who, by happenstance, studies the same course as I do. The...
Court indicts President Hashim Thaci, nine others in war crimes
Kosovo's President, Hashim Thaci, and nine former fighters have been indicted by the court probing crimes committed during and after...
UN, Arab League issue warning against Israel’s annexation plan
UN, Arab League issue warning against Israel's annexation plan The United Nations and the Arab League have called on Israel...
HYCM adds 50 cryptocurrency CFDs, reduces spread of cryptocurrency products
HYCM, a well-established global forex broker, has added over 50 cryptocurrency CFD pairs on its MT5 platform. While expanding its...
Facebook fires employee who protested inaction on Trump posts
Facebook has dismissed one of its staff who had questioned Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg. The decision was taken after the...
Youtube to amplify black creators’ voice, launches $100 million fund initiative
Youtube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, anounced on Thursday 11th June 2020 via Youtube blog that the site would launch $100 million...
APO Group partners Opera to boost prominence of truthful information about Covid-19
APO Group, the leading pan-African communications and business consultancy, and Opera, one of the world’s leading browser providers and platforms...
ILO calls for release of 150,000 seafarers trapped due to COVID-19
The International Labour Organization has called for urgent and coordinated action to release the 150,000 to 200,000 seafarers trapped on...
UNDP tasks governments to lead fight against coronavirus
The United Nations Development Programme has tasked governments with the need to step up and lead the fight against a...
UN solicits help for Conflict-hit Nigerian families under COVID-19 lockdown
United Nations humanitarians have said that help and funding are urgently needed for millions of people in Nigeria who have...
Young people express commitment towards environmental protection
Accra, 9 June 2020 - Young people have resolved to be more zealous and committed towards the protection of the...
Formula 1 confirms first eight races for revised 2020 calendar
Formula 1 has confirmed that 2020 season would restart in early July. While disclosing this in a statement on Tuesday...
WHO sets to renew relationship with US
The World Health Organization has said that it is still interested in collaborating with the United States. The UN health...
Opinion | COVID 19: Why Investing in Health is Critical to Global Development
One minute you are reading about pioneering medical technology behind the implanting of bionic eyes to restore sight to blind...
#ICantBreathe: Racism; A Festering Wound
It is one curious case that much of impacts and milestones by the black-skinned human has been doctored out of...
UN condemns George Floyd’s Killing, calls for justice
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, on Friday May 29, 2020 condemned the killing of George Floyd by...
Google employees receive $1,000 to set up workplaces at home
Google has disclosed that it would distribute $1,000 to its employee to equip their homes as some of its staff...
UN pledges commitment to tackling anti-Muslim hatred, bigotry
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has pledged his total commitment to rejecting anti-Muslim bigotry, hate and all forms of intolerance. Guterres...
WHO launches foundation for private donations to tackle Covid-19
The World Health Organization has launched a new foundation for private donations to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. This was disclosed...
WHO suspends hydroxychloroquine as treatment for COVID-19
The World Health Organization has suspended testing of the malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, as a potential treatment for COVID-19. This was...
China accuses US of spreading political virus
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a news conference on Sunday 24th, 2020, hinted and warned against emerging “political virus”...
OIC congratulates Muslims on Eid celebration
Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Secretary has extended his felicitation to Muslims around the world wishing them...
Eidul-fitr: Nigerian lawmaker urges continuous show of kindness after Ramadan
Hon. Olalekan AbdulRasheed Afolabi of Ifelodun, Boripe and Odo-Otin Federal Constituency, State of Osun has urged Nigerians and Muslims across...
Canada joins Somalia, Niger, others to celebrate Eid-el-Fitri on Saturday
The Crescent Council of Canada has declared Saturday May 23 ‘Eīd Al-Fiṭr, following confirmation of multiple moon sightings in Somalia,...
UN launches initiative to tackle misinformation about Covid-19
The United Nations has launched an initiative to tackle the spread of online misinformation regarding Covid-19 pandemic. This was disclosed...
White American family protests against white supremacy, relays in honor of Ahmaud Arbery
A white America family headed by Levi Ketelsen has called for total annihilation of white supremacy in the United States....
Covid-19: Scientists share experiences, expertise in Islamic countries at first international meeting
Al-Mustafa Foundation for Science and Technology, in partnership with in the Science, Technology and Studies Organization of Singapore has organized...
American medical experts claim children not immune to Coronavirus
NEW YORK (May 19, 2020) – While most children infected with the novel coronavirus have mild symptoms, a subset requires...
EU suspends distribution of Chinese face masks, alleges poor quality
Following complaints from two different countries about the quality of the Chinese face masks delivered to the countries, the European...
28 million Afro-American Christians condemn killing of Ahmaud Arbery, call appointment of Lead Prosecutor Joyette Holmes window-dressing
Washington DC – The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a coalition of 34,000 churches representing 27.7 million African Americans in collaboration with...
World leaders seek collaboration, demand free coronavirus vaccine for all nations
Following the ongoing efforts to produce a cure for the Covid-19, past and present world leaders have resolved that everyone...
Covid-19 Vaccine: 8 top candidates emerge, WHO appeals for more funding
The World Health Organization chief has disclosed that there are about seven to eight “top” candidates for a vaccine to...
Migrants headed to Arabian Gulf stranded in Somalia amid COVID-19
Hundreds of migrants are stranded in Bossaso, Puntland, Somalia, as a result of border and sea-crossing closures brought on by...
THE THREE SEGMENTS OF RAMADAN
At the beginning of this sacred month, 11 days ago, an analysis was done in this column classifying the 30...
Covid toe, other mystery rashes baffle doctors
Doctors treating coronavirus are baffled with the mysterious rashes linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. COVID toe, a rash that appears...
RAMADAN GUIDE: MEDICAL IMPLICATIONS OF FASTING
Whenever Ramadan comes around every year, many Muslims perceive it from economic, social and psychological perspectives alone. They hardly note...
RAMADAN GUIDE: LITERACY AND TAFSIR
One of the indisputable aiding instruments of Tafsir is literacy. The more literate the Muslims are in the relevant language,...
POSITIVE EFFECTS OF COVID-19 IN NIGERIA
The world is currently held at the jugular by a new strain of Coronavirus disease, SARS-CoV-2, which was first identified...
Investing in Social Services and Climate Actions to Prepare Better for Pandemic
The Sustainable Development Goals call for actions to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace...
Muslim World League supports UNRWA, donates $1 million
The Muslim World League, the international non-governmental organization, has supported the United Nations Relief and Works Agency with a huge...
WHO opposes issuance of immunity passport
The idea for the immunity passport or a back-to-work pass is that if you've been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus...
Covid-19: WHO warns against distraction from other health issues
The World Health Organization has urged that countries should not allow the unprecedented pandemic prevent them from maintaining efforts on...
YouTube opposes 5G theory, bans contents contrary to WHO advice
In an effort to prevent spread of misinformation about coronavirus, YouTube has begun banning of any coronavirus-related contents that lack...
UN receives 1.2 million euros from EU to fight Covid-19 in Nigeria
As the number of cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria continues to increase, along with concerns around the need to drastically...
Covid-19: UN warns of extreme hunger, calls for actions
As the world battles life-threatening pandemic, the United Nations has warned of extreme hunger, stressing that about 265 million people...
Covid-19: UN sanctions member over failure to complete self-isolation
The United Nations has taken disciplinary action against a staff member who failed to complete self-isolation and left South Sudan...
