Media is awash with reports that some delegates of the Central Committee of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) ruling party criticized the whole procedure of the process of seeking a Presidential candidate for the party. The delegates are Dr. Emmanuel Nchimbi, Member of Parliament Songea Urban and who served as Minister of the Interior, Sophia Simba, who is currently Minister of Community Development, Gender and Children and Chair of Tanzania…

On Wednesday 22nd July 2015, the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham announced their discovery of one of the oldest texts of the Qur’an in the world. After radiocarbon-dated testing which is said to be 95.4% accurate, research estimated the parchments to be from between 568 – 645 AD.

The town of Luton outside London has a large Muslim population. In recent years, it has been in the local and global news for various examples of negative stories associated with Islam and Muslims; and the far right English Defence League (EDL) has planned provocative anti-Islam marches there. These and many other issues have caused there to be raised tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims there and in other parts of…

Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA, declared that the Sykes Picot agreements through which Iraq and Syria arose were not divided in accordance to their factional and ethnic realities; and that what the region is witnessing in terms of violent events and catastrophic wars are heading in themselves towards a division that is in accordance to this reality which the European States should have originally paid attention to when…