The deadly bombings in Uganda during the World Cup final have deepened worries among American authorities about another once localized Islamic group...

In recent months, many in the United States seem to have given up on Somalia. In March, for example, the Council on Foreign Relations issued...

Thousands of Westerners, or to be more precise holders of Western passports, are being recruited by Al-Qaeda in Somalia -- according to Western intelligence agencies.

With leadership support from Harakat al-Shabab and Hizb al-Islamiyah -- two Somali Islamist movements -- al-Qaeda's East Africa cell has long used Somalia as a safehaven.

Buoyed by booming oil wealth and a close relationship with China, Sudan has shrugged off repeated threats of action by the United States and other major powers.

Somalia's vicious 18-year civil war is spilling out into Kenya and beyond, spiralling into a global struggle that enmeshes the Somali diaspora from Africa to Europe to Canada.

Even established leaders of Islam in the north, who condemn Yusuf's preaching, are aware of how government has failed Nigeria's young. What has Western education done for them lately?

Ethiopia is a country with over 3,000 years of recorded and oral history, and African civilisation. It is one of the few ancient civilisations that has its own scripts and indigenous culture. The obelisks at Axum, the castles at Gondar, the rock-hewn churches at Lalibela in the north of the country,...

The fighting in Somalia is coming down to a battle between traditional Islamic practices (the mystical Sufi form) and the more radical Wahhabi version, imported from Saudi Arabia and concentrated in the al Shabaab group. Wahhabi Moslems consider Sufi to be a heresy (Wahhabi tends to consider any form of Islam other than theirs to be heresy).

Senior U.S. counterterrorism officials are stepping up warnings that Islamist extremists in Somalia are radicalizing Americans to their cause, citing their successful recruitment of the first U.S. citizen suicide bomber and potential role in the disappearance of more than a dozen Somali American youths.

Just a year or two ago, Sudanese militant leaders Al-Hadi Adam Agabeldour and Sadiq Ali Shaibo would have considered each other enemies. They belonged to different militias, and their ethnic groups – Arab and Zaghawa, respectively – were fighting on opposite sides of the war in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.

Three months later, John's fears of a nightmare scenario still cannot be ruled out, as evidenced by the revolting desecration on Mogadishu's streets of dead Somali and Ethiopian soldiers' bodies, followed by the downing of the plane supporting the African Union peace-keepers.

Since the early 1990s, Somalia has lacked any semblance of a strong government. After the government collapsed in 1991, Shariah-oriented Islamic courts emerged, managing the judiciary system, acting as local police by preventing robberies and drug-dealing, and offering other services such as education and healthcare.

The U.S. foreign policy blundering has created a new violent hotbed of anti-Americanism in the turbulent Horn of Africa by orchestrating the Ethiopian invasion of another Muslim capital of the Arab League, in a clear American message...

Many analysts underestimate or simply dismiss the potential of Somalia becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. The Somali tradition of “religious moderation and tolerance” is cited as a deterrent to a Taliban-like, medieval administration that could destabilize the region and provide support for militant Islamic movements worldwide.

The scramble for power in Somalia's violent and contorted clan-based politics is occurring at every new stage of development, opening up fresh possibilities and opportunities as well as new risks and dangers. The stunning victory of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) over CIA-backed warlords...

The immediate concern among many Somalis is a forcible imposition of harsh Islamic law, Taliban style. The larger international concern is that Mogadishu's new rulers may follow the Taliban's example in another way, sheltering international terrorist operations in a region within tempting striking distance...

More than a decade after U.S. troops withdrew from Somalia following a disastrous military intervention, officials of Somalia's interim government and some U.S. analysts of Africa policy say the United States has returned to the African country, secretly supporting secular warlords who have been waging fierce battles against Islamic groups...

Admitting Muslim societies had fallen into a deep malaise, the leaders of the so-called Islamic States, in their final statement, said: last week ''The Islamic nation is in a crises''. ''We need decisive action to fight deviant ideas because they are the justification of terrorism. There is a need to confront deviant ideology wherever it appears,

The US government just released a report on religious freedom, released by the US Department Of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. The report singled some countries among which is Sudan for lack of religious freedom.

Sudanese hard-liners vowed Friday to defy a U.N. Security Council resolution referring Darfur war crimes suspects to the International Criminal Court, saying it was unfair for Sudanese suspects to face The Hague tribunal when Americans are exempt.

Traditionally, African Islam has been characterized by tolerance and moderation and made vital contributions to the region in education, commerce and government. But this progressive orientation has been imperiled in recent years by the introduction of Islamism...

Chairman of Jama At-ul Islamiyya of Nigeria, Division seven, Professor Lai Olurode, has attributed the global portrayal of Islam as being equivalent to terrorism and violence, as a formidable obstacle to forging peace.

A group of Mandingoes, under the banner of the Concerned Mandingoes Society of Liberia (COMSAL) over the weekend toured various mosques, schools as well as private residences of members of the Mandingoes ethnic group that were damaged during the recent violence in the City of Monrovia.

In Borno state, in north-eastern Nigeria, there have been two attacks on police stations by groups of armed Muslim militants, and a number of policemen and local residents who opposed the militants have been killed.

Darfur was a proud independent Muslim kingdom for many centuries. It only joined Sudan in 1916. Darfur had many different ethnic tribes inhabiting the rugged mountainous region in Western Sudan.

Apparently, since the Sudanese didn't have enough wristwatches to time it, it didn't work. So instead of preventing 'such a tragedy from ever happening again', the UN is standing by (again) while the Sudan's Islamic government systematically slaughters and enslaves....

A proposed American initiative to reach out to the Muslims in Africa 's Sub-Sahara will not shine up the image of Washington tarnished by its policies in the Arab and Muslim world, an African expert said on Sunday, July 18.

There they go again. The story is so old already. Arab militia or Arab army or Arab terrorist attacks non-Arab. Or was that Muslim fanatic attacks non-Muslim? This time, it's happening in Sudan.