The Islamic University in Uganda is a prime example of a new kind of institution that has slowly been spreading its way across the continent. Embracing both conservative Muslim values and modern ...

When Jund al-Khilafa, or the “Soldiers of the Caliphate,” pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in Algeria in September 2014, the first African Islamic State affiliate was born. One month later, in ...

Yes, founder of NGO Gift of the Givers Imtiaz Sooliman said 'I follow Islamic law, it overrides any other law'When a plane carrying over 150 Palestinians landed in South Africa in November 2025, the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. As the self-proclaimed Islamic State loses ground in Syria and Iraq, there is ...

March 12, 2021: Over the last four years most Islamic terrorist violence has shifted to Africa. Currently the worldwide top-ten nations suffering terrorism-related deaths are; Afghanistan, Iraq, ...

FILE - The Treasury Building is viewed in Washington, May 4, 2021. The U.S. has imposed its second round of sanctions in less than a week on people and firms in Africa who it says have provided ...

Moody’s published a report on 16 September that reveals Islamic finance is already progressing apace on the continent and has good prospects ahead of it, at least for the next 12 to 18 months. Most ...

The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, says the Arab-Africa summit will boost trade ...

IN 2008 Ethiopia’s conservative central bank experimented: it authorised interest-free banking. Interest is prohibited under sharia law, so the move was lauded as a step towards expanding financial ...

Islamic terrorism continues to be, as it has been since the 1990s, the main source of terrorism-related deaths, accounting for about 90 percent of the fatalities. The remainder of the ...