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...Abdi Bilow, 52, says his herd of 100 cattle has dwindled to just three scrawny cows. “It’s unlikely they’ll survive, they have nothing to eat....
...Mohammed Sohail, chief executive at brokerage Topline Securities, says Pakistan’s turbulent politics has been a persistent drag on investment....
...Tiwani Contemporary sold out of its booth of 10 works based on an imagined empire by the African-American artist Umar Rashid ($25,000-$65,000)....
...When Muslim armies defeated the Byzantines in Syria and conquered Jerusalem in 637, Umar, the second caliph after the death of the Prophet Mohammed, refused an invitation from the patriarch to pray in the...
...Local religious leaders preach that serving alcohol is sinful: “For these things, the Prophet Mohammed has said there will be punishment.”...
...Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is to arrive in Pakistan as soon as this week with the promise of billions of dollars in cash, subsidies and investment for the kingdom’s cash-strapped ally...
...While many Nigerians expressed outrage at the last-minute delay, at his shoe shop in Kano, Mohammed Kabir Umar, 49, was circumspect....
...Mohammed Sohail, an analyst at the Karachi-based Topline Securities, said: “The government is preparing the ground to go to the IMF....
...Zarah Umar arrived in Borno’s state capital in mid-November, joining a wave that has more than doubled Maiduguri’s population to over 2m in recent years....
...“No ransoms were paid,” said Lai Mohammed, the minister, in a statement....
...Mohammed Shafiq, head of the Manchester-based Ramadhan Foundation, which campaigns against hate crimes, said Prevent remains “flawed” because Muslim communities lack confidence in it....
...Indeed, Bukhari reports a tradition that ibn Umar, Mohammed’s brother-in-law and an authority on Islamic traditions, said that it was unlawful for a Muslim man to marry a Christian woman....
...The protests began after a reference to the Prophet Mohammed was omitted from a constitutional bill in parliament. The government said the omission, which was corrected, was a clerical mistake....
...Aisha Abdi, who attended Sunday night’s prayers before the attack, is among Muslim women in the area who once a month meet Christian counterparts from a local church....
...“What we are seeing is very localised protests merging into a much larger political threat against the government,” said Rashid Abdi, Horn of Africa project director at the International Crisis Group, a...
...Thousands of years before Mohammed, before Christ, even before Moses, a settled and prosperous community lived in this valley....
...Press reports in India said Asim Umar, who has been linked to the Pakistani Taliban, would head al-Qaeda in south Asia....
...Only two of the four men’s names have been released: Mohammed Abdinur Said and Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, a Somali who previously lived in Norway and the only one of the group thought to have been on a terrorism...
...Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Umar Arshad and Syed Farhan Hussain were sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court after admitting intending to commit acts of terrorism....
...“We are embarking on the largest and most significant exploration this country has seen since it became independent 21 years ago,” oil minister Hussein Abdi Dualeh told beyondbrics from an oil conference...
...Mohammed Umar Della: This is a really difficult question, but I think the one avenue you have have not explored is that of an executive MBA or EMBA, which would probably be more in line with your qualifications...
...In August 2009 a bomb hidden in the body of Mr Asiri’s 23-year-old brother narrowly failed to kill Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the Saudi intelligence chief....
...August 2009 A Saudi militant leaves Yemen and travels to Jeddah, where he blows himself up in a bold attempt to kill Prince Mohammed bin Naif, Saudi Arabia’s deputy interior minister....
...“You often need to tweak laws and regulations to enable Islamic finance,” says Sameer Abdi, head of Ernst & Young’s Islamic financial services group in the Middle East and North Africa....
...The US has since put the country on its terrorism “watchlist”, even though Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had spent much of his life abroad....
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