The resignation of Asma Lamrabet from the league of Moroccan Muslim scholars (Rabita Mohammedia) because of her support for equal inheritance rights between men and women sent shockwaves across the country, causing the debate over gender and inheritance in Morocco to resurface. The current Moroccan inheritance law is based on traditional Islamic jurisprudence of Ta’sib, […]
More than 560 members of a rebel group linked to the Islamic State (IS) have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since December 2021 in operations conducted by Uganda’s military, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has said, as local authorities in DRC have reported scores of dead and injured following an attack on […]
More than ten years after Muammar Gaddafi’s assassination, Libya remains trapped in chaos, its promises of liberation eroded by division, corruption, and broken institutions. The 2020 ceasefire muted the sound of gunfire but did little to mend the nation’s political fractures. Ordinary Libyans endure hardship amid hunger, insecurity, and corruption, while the threat of renewed […]
