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After Libya Comic Con arrests, still no word on detained organizers

After Libya Comic Con arrests, still no word on detained organizers

It’s been a week, and there’s still no official word on a half-dozen Libya Comic Con organizers arrested by an armed group in Tripoli last Friday. Hundreds of people attended the country’s second annual Comic Con at the Dat Al-Imad conference center, where organizers say they had permission to hold…

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Mauritania blogger’s looming death-penalty decision sparks new appeals

Mauritania blogger’s looming death-penalty decision sparks new appeals

As the date for Mauritania to review the death penalty case of blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed draws near, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and other free-press advocates have again appealed to the nation’s leaders to reconsider his case. In a letter Friday to President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz,…

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Africans head to Mecca; West African climate research; Kenyan credit-report issues

Africans head to Mecca; West African climate research; Kenyan credit-report issues

African Muslims arrive at Mecca for annual hajj pilgrimage Thousands of Muslims from Kenya, Ghana and across Africa are streaming to Saudi Arabia as the annual hajj pilgrimage begins Friday. Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, is an obligation for adult Muslims who are able to make the…

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Nine people sentenced to death in Nigerian Sharia court for blasphemy

Nine people have be convicted of blasphemy in Nigeria on June 25, 2015, and sentenced to death by the Sharia court of appeal on Rijiyar Lemo, northwest Nigeria. One of the men sentenced, Abdul-Inyas, leader of the Tijjaniyya Sufi Muslim sect, was accused of making statements against the Prophet Mohammad…

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