The 2016 Posture Statement from U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) underscores that factors associated with the Islamic State’s brand of cyber-facilitated extremism are emerging in Africa. AFRICOM’s ...

Islam is one of Africa's most widely practiced faiths on the continent. Almost one-third of the world's Muslim population is in Africa. During the early 7th century, Africa became the first continent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maj. Gen. Amir Hatami replaced Abdolrahim Mousavi who was recently appointed the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces after Israel ...

DAKAR, Senegal — An African branch of the Islamic State that for years was an afterthought for the main organization is surging in strength, expanding the ranks of its fighters and controlling more ...

Last weekend, insurgents from IS-aligned groups the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram launched a pre-dawn raid on a military base in the northern Nigerian state of Borno, ...

On top of the Mamelles, the twin hills outside Senegal’s picturesque coastal capital city of Dakar, sits Le Monument de la Renaissance africaine. Some 49 metres tall, the Soviet-style bronze statue of ...

Houston's African American Muslim community has shaped the city's religious and cultural landscape for decades-building institutions, reclaiming history and laying a foundation that would later allow ...

A group of queer Muslims in South Africa have rejected the South African Muslim Judicial Council’s new edict that condemns homosexuality as sinful and unIslamic. The fatwa the the South African Muslim ...

On 12 August, 2020, Islamic militants calling themselves Ansar al-Sunnah seized the coastal town of Mocímboa da Praia in northern Mozambique. It was a bloodbath. The Mozambican Army, which had ...

Scholarship on Christian engagement of Islam in Africa is expanding, and many Africans, especially Christian theologians, are taking interest. The growth in scholarship on Islam and its varied ...

Standard Bank Shari’ah Banking has risen from a late entrant in South Africa’s Islamic finance market to the region’s best Islamic bank, reflecting a strategy built around innovation, disciplined ...

For many African countries, violence linked to militant Islamist groups is a pressing security threat. These armed extremist groups amplify grievances and intercommunal differences to recruit new ...