By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A record number of refugee and migrant children are traveling solo to escape violence and poverty, falling prey to abuse and human traffickers in their journey to a new life, the United Nations children’s agency said on Wednesday. Be it to escape war in Syria or gang...
BY JIM SUHR KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered a Kansas City, Missouri, man to be detained without bond on a passport fraud charge while the FBI investigates what the judge suggested was the native Somali’s “long-held goal to leave this country to join a foreign terrorist organization.” Chief U.S....
By Ali Sheikh As the political crusade and counter-campaigns intensify, momentums of a new game-changing tactics increasingly emerged at the height of the political hustle in Garissa County. As the intensity and the gravity of the political grouse engraving the entire County continues, some key politicians unknowingly found themselves carried on the other side of...
By Marco Zoppi Societies ineluctably transform themselves through the natural course of time, and during this development some of their elements of heritage, whether vested in culture or articulated in other facies of human experience, are modified to meet the requirements of practice and of lived empirical contexts. And precisely there, where the most sophisticated...
By Tom Gardner ADDIS ABABA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Aworar Meka had been living and working at the Reppi rubbish dump in Addis Ababa for only one month when tragedy struck. A giant landslide at the 50-year-old dump, the Ethiopian capital’s only landfill site, hit his neighbourhood on March 11, destroying dozens of homes and...
BY CONOR GAFFEY Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni waits to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S., on September 20, 2016. Museveni has been in power for more than three decades in Uganda. EDUARDO MUNOZ/REUTERS “Wonderful” and “dictator” aren’t two words you usually see together. But that was the phrase Ugandan President...
By JOE COCHRANE Members of Nahdlatul Ulama in Jakarta in 2011, during a commemoration of the group’s founding in Indonesia in 1926. Its youth wing is making a global push to bring Islamic law into line with modern norms.CreditSupri/Reuters JAKARTA, Indonesia — The imposing, six-foot-tall painting is a potent symbol of modern Indonesian history: the...
A full house at the opening ceremony of the fourth Saudi Film Festival (AN photos) RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will one day open cinemas and build a world-class opera house, the man spearheading the kingdom’s entertainment reforms said on Thursday, downplaying opposition by powerful religious authorities to changes they see as sinful. The kingdom had some...
BY ELEANOR ROSS The world’s largest gathering of female Muslim clerics in Indonesia issued a fatwa Thursday that declared marital rape haram—or forbidden—under Islamic law and urged the government to make it illegal. The Indonesian Women’s Ulama Congress (KUPI2017) issued three fatwas—Islamic legal pronouncements that are typically issued by Muslim clerics . The first addressed...
BY HAMZA HENDAWI, LEE KEATH AND MARIAM FAM ] FILE – In this Dec. 1, 2015 file photo, Egyptian Al-Azhar students wait for Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, to deliver a speech, at Cairo University, Egypt. Egypt is embroiled in a blistering political feud over who speaks for Islam and how to bring...