The feast of sweets during Ramadan in Egypt is made up of scrumptious candy, cookies, pastries, and other desserts. These delightful confections are created using a variety of different textures, flavours, and aromas. Families enjoy Ramadan dessert treats together after breaking their fast and are often sold by street vendors throughout the city of Cairo. […]
In Cairo, a cannon called “Midfaa Al-Iftar” is fired every day at sunset during the month of Ramadan to let people know it’s time to eat at the end of each day’s fast. The tradition of Midfaa Al-Iftar firing started in the 15th century during the Mamluk dynasty, around 1467 AD, when Sultan Al-Zaher Khoshqadam […]
Zimbabwe will change its laws to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp for export, cabinet ministers said on Tuesday, adding that the government saw the plant as a future substitute for tobacco, the country’s biggest export earning crop. Industrial hemp is a strain of a cannabis species that is grown specifically for industrial uses of […]
A High Court in Malawi has dismissed government’s request to place an injunction on all protests relating to post-election disputes in the southern African country. The Attorney General had petitioned the court to ban the protests which have over the last few months resulted in clashes between opposition elements and security forces. The court in […]
Some Nigerian traders in Ghana’s Western Regional capital of Takoradi have described fellow compatriot, Sam Udoetuk-Wills, chief suspect in the kidnapping of three girls, as an insane person. In interviews with a Ghanaian journalist, broadcast on Kumasi-based Nhyira FM, the Nigerians were unanimous that Udoetuk-Wills “is not a normal person”. “The Nigerian traders are saying […]
An altercation between Ethiopian federal police officers has led to a shooting incident at the premises of the Central Statistics Agency. Aaron Maasho, a Reuters journalist covering Ethiopia and the African Union said the officers were guarding tablets expected to be deployed for census. A journalist with the Ethiopian Reporter said the federal police had […]
At least 40 people have been reported killed and dozens injured after an air strike hit a wedding ceremony in southwestern Libya, according to media reports. Reports said forces loyal to the warlord Khalifa Haftar launched the attack on Sunday in the town of Murzuq. Al Jazeera learned that the victims were attending a wedding, […]
Security forces have fired teargas at protesters in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos Monday morning. The Revolution Now protests called for by activists had been expressly outlawed by the police who said it was treasonable. Photos shared on social media showed people gathered at the Lagos national stadium where people were gathering for the event. The […]
The Head of State Paul Biya has given firm instructions for the acceleration of judicial procedures and decongestion of prisons in the country, the Minister of Communication, Rene Emmanuel Sadi has said. In a press briefing at the weekend, Rene Emmanuel Sadi said the Head of State has prescribed special measures so as to avoid […]
Libya plans to shut down three migrant detention centers in the country following deadly shipwrecks on the Mediterranean at the end of July. According to the United Nations, July has seen the deadliest shipwrecks involving migrants to Libya this year.On July 25, a boat carrying migrants from North African countries capsized after setting off from […]
Zimbabwe on Friday summoned the US ambassador to Harare to protest US travel sanctions imposed on its envoy to Tanzania over his alleged role in a military crackdown that left six civilians dead last year. Anselem Sanyatwe, former commander of the presidential guard, is accused of commanding soldiers who opened fire on unarmed demonstrators protesting […]
Namibia’s president, Hage Geingob has inaugurated a new $200 million dollars port terminal at Walvis Bay, an extension that will double the country’s port capacity from 350,000 containers to 750,000 per year. The inauguration ceremony was held on the 40- hectare platform reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean. “Namibia has now joined countries such as Australia, […]
Police in Ghana have retrieved body parts from the home of a suspected kidnapper in the country’s Western region. The suspect, one Sam Wills, is being held on charges of kidnapping three girls in Takoradi, one of the key towns in the region. The capital of the Western Region is Sekondi Takoradi. Reports say the […]
The Military in Nigeria has denied allegations that it has been secretly burying soldiers killed in the Boko Haram terrorist war. According to the report by Wall Street Journal at least 1,000 soldiers killed since the terror groups began an offensive last summer have been buried at the sprawling secret graveyard in Maiduguri and an […]
The mayor of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has died of wounds sustained in a suicide bomb attack on his office, government officials said on Thursday. He died in Qatar where he had gone for treatment after the attack. Abdirahman Omar Osman was a naturalised Briton who returned to Somalia to help rebuild the war-torn country after […]
The British Government has said Nigerians will gain from Brexit as it was an opportunity of opening its relationship with the rest of the world. The British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ms Gill Atkinson gave the advice when she paid a courtesy visit to the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Idris […]
The mayor of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has died in Qatar of wounds sustained in an Al-Shabaab inspired suicide bomb attack on his office, government officials said on Thursday. Abdirahman Omar Osman, a naturalised Briton died in Qatar where he had gone for treatment after the attack. He returned to Somalia to help rebuild the war-torn […]
Ibrahim Gambari, Nigeria’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, has advised the Federal Government to make war against terrorism one of its priorities in the country’s foreign policy. Gambari gave the advice on Wednesday in Abuja while delivering a lecture at the 2019 Annual Lecture of the Association of Foreign Relations Professionals of Nigeria […]
The ten detained leaders of the Ambazonia separatist movement say lawyers defending are under constant threats from security forces. The detained leaders who embarked on a hunger strike yesterday to request government to reveal the whereabouts of fellow Anglophone detainees who were extracted from the Kondengui prison over a week ago. In a letter addressed […]
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria do hereby announce to the general public and the international community that it has temporarily suspended its Free Zakzaky street protests to allow for some new openings into the resolution of the problems, especially the court case instituted by our lawyers on the proscription order made by the federal government […]