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Qatar’s ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani named the most influential Muslim

Jordan-based “The Muslim 500” has named Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani as the most influential Muslim. Sheikh Tamim tops 50 influential Muslim personalities. Saudi ruler King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud, and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei follow respectively 2nd and 3rd. The Jordanian Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, an independent research entity […]

East Africa regional force pledges to counter advancing M23 rebels, keep Goma safe

The East African Community Regional Force (EACRF), led by Kenya, has vowed to protect the city of Goma, which is home to one million people, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from the advancing M23 rebels. Kenya sent recently hundreds of troops to Goma to quell the violence after M23 rebels […]

Central Bank of Libya holds first unified board meeting since 2014

The Central Bank of Libya, CBL, held Monday for the first time a full board meeting since 2014 after which the bank was split into two. The bank, Libya Observer reports, held a full-quorum meeting for the first time in six years to discuss fixing exchange rates of the Libyan dinar to foreign currencies. The […]