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By Halife Afra Aksoy ISTANBUL (AA): At least 11 were killed and 98 others were injured after a train derailed just north of the Egyptian capital Cairo, the country’s health ministry said on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said 11 people lost their lives and 98 others were injured in a train accident […]

17th Apr 2021

Tunisia: At least 40 people drown in shipwreck off Tunisia

By Peter Kenny GENEVA (AA): At least 41 people have perished in a shipwreck off the coast of Sidi Mansour in southeastern Tunisia, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, UN refugee and migration agencies said on Friday. The bodies of 41 people, including at least one child, have so far been retrieved […]

14th Apr 2021

Niger: 20 children died in school blaze in Niamey

By Kane Illa NIAMEY, Niger (AA): At least 20 students from a nursery school were killed on Tuesday in a fire that ravaged the establishment, located in the Nigerien capital Niamey, according to local media on Wednesday. “Twenty classes in straw huts were consumed by the fire and unfortunately 20 children were killed,” Col. […]

7th Apr 2021

France accused of complicity in Rwanda genocide

By Yusuf Ozcan PARIS (AA): France’s complicity in the Rwandan genocide is marked every year on April 7 on the UN-designated International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda. France supported the Hutus, an ethnic group which committed the 100 days of slaughter in Rwanda in 1994. At least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis were […]

31st Mar 2021

French airstrike in Mali mostly killed civilians: UN

By Shweta Desai PARIS (AA): In a report, the UN mission in the West African nation of Mali on Tuesday concluded that a January airstrike by the French army overwhelmingly killed civilians among suspected non-armed members of terrorist groups, a claim denied by France. The UN’s Multidimensional Integrated Mission for stabilization in Mali (MINUSMA) […]

27th Mar 2021

Egypt: 32 dead, 160 hurt in train collision

By Diana Chalhoub and Said Ibicioglu CAIRO (AA): At least 32 people were killed and 160 injured in Egypt on Friday in a collision between two passenger trains, the Health Ministry said in a statement. The crash took place near the Al-Ibrahimiyya area in Egypt’s Sohag Governorate, according to government-affiliated daily Akhbar al-Youm. The […]

22nd Mar 2021

Niger: 30 civilians killed near Malian border

By Kane Illa NIAMEY, Niger (AA): At least 30 Nigerien civilians were killed on Sunday in a series of attacks on villages in northwestern Niger near the Malian border, said a security source on Monday. “Unidentified armed men attacked villages in the Tillia department, in the Tahoua region,” a security official told Anadolu Agency […]

17th Mar 2021

Niger: Dozens of civilians killed near Malian border

By Kane Illa and Rodrigue Forku NIAMEY, Niger (AA): About 40 Nigerien civilians were killed in an attack in southwestern Niger near the Malian border on Monday, a security source said. “They were villagers returning from a weekly market who were attacked by unidentified gunmen,” the source told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity […]

8th Mar 2021

Nigeria: 14 kidnapped sailors rescued in Gulf of Guinea

By Adam Abu-bashal ABUJA, Nigeria (AA): Fourteen sailors kidnapped by pirates were rescued Saturday in the Gulf of Guinea. Nigeria’s army spokesman Mohammed Yerim said 10 foreign crew members and four Nigerians who were taken hostage were rescued in an operation off of the coasts of Nigeria and Gabon. The operation was successfully carried […]

6th Mar 2021

Somalia: Suicide car bombing kills 20 in Mogadishu

By Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA): At least 20 people were killed and 30 others wounded when a suicide car bomb blast targeted a busy restaurant in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday, medical sources said. The attack occurred during evening rush hour near seaport in Hamarjajab neighborhood. Police spokesman Sadaq Adan Ali told Anadolu […]

28th Feb 2021

Somalia: Roadside bomb kills 3 in Mogadishu

By Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people, including two soldiers, were killed in Somalia’s capital Sunday morning in a bomb blast targeting a military vehicle carrying senior staff. Wounding several others, the attack took place on Abdikasim road in Mogadishu city, rocking the busy KM4 intersection. Local police official Abdifatah […]

27th Feb 2021

Nigeria commences op to rescue 317 abducted schoolgirls

By Olarewaju Kola MAIDUGUEI, Nigeria (AA): Nigerian military and police began operations to rescue hundreds of schoolgirls abducted from a boarding school early Friday in northwest Zamfara State, according to officials. Governor Bello Mohammed said police and other security agencies are using surveillance aircraft in the rescue effort. “Currently, police helicopters and other search and […]

7th Feb 2021

Libyans welcome election of interim executive authority

By Said Ibicioglu TRIPOLI (AA): Libya’s High Council of State and Libyan politicians welcomed recent political developments Friday as the North African country elected an interim president and prime minister to govern the country until elections in December. “We welcome the conclusions of the Geneva talks on the restructuring of the Libyan executive authority […]

1st Feb 2021

Somalia: 10 people killed in Al-Shabaab attack on hotel

By Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somali security forces ended an eight-hour-long siege on a hotel early on Monday following an attack by al-Shabaab terrorists in the capital Mogadishu. At least ten people were killed amid the fighting centered on Afrik Hotel, strategically located near the heavily fortified Mogadishu airport and often frequented by […]

17th Jan 2021

Mali to maintain support for French troops amid threats

By Shweta Desai PARIS (AA): A top Malian official has said the country would continue supporting the French military presence in the West African nation amid threats of attacks against the troops engaged in anti-terror operations. In a statement Friday, the head of the country’s National Transition Council Malick Diaw vowed to provide support to […]

9th Jan 2021

Cameroon: 18 dead, 4 injured in terror attacks

By Aurore Bonny LOME, Togo (AA): Eighteen people were killed, including civilians, in two separate terror attacks Friday in Cameroon, the government said in a statement. The attacks were carried out in the Mayo-Sanaga department in the far north and in western Cameroon. “At about half past midnight, an incursion by a group of heavily […]

8th Jan 2021

Niger: Over 10,000 people flee violence in Niger

By Felix Tih (AA) About 10,600 people have been displaced following recent attacks in two villages in Niger’s Tillaberi region, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The Saturday attack claimed 105 lives — 73 in Tchombangou and 32 in Zaroumadareye villages. Hundreds of survivors fled the scene on foot, […]

21st Dec 2020

Nigeria: 5 Nigerian soldiers killed in Boko Haram attack

By Adam Abu-bashal ABUJA, Nigeria (AA): Boko Haram terrorist group has killed five Nigerian soldiers and kidnapped at least 35 people in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, a military source said on Sunday. “The terrorists fired an RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] on the convoy which hit one of the vehicles with five soldiers in it,” local news […]

30th Nov 2020

Nigeria: Boko Haram attack killed 110 in Borno state

By Adam Abu-bashal ABUJA, Nigeria (AA): The death toll has risen to at least 110 in a recent attack by Boko Haram terrorists in northeastern Nigeria, a UN official has said. Saturday’s attack on farmers working in rice fields in the Garin Kwashebe village of Borno state killed at least 110, Edward Kallon, UN humanitarian […]

1st Dec 2020

Sudan: Israelis visit Sudan’s defense industry facilities

By Omer Erdem KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA):- A delegation from Israel visited Sudan’s capital Khartoum and held talks on military matters, the spokesperson for the transitional government said Sunday. Speaking to a local newspaper, Mohammed al-Faki Suleiman said the delegation did not discuss political issues. He said the delegation toured defense industry facilities of the Sudanese […]

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Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims. It was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.