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A demonstration in Abidjan against coup leaders during an ECOWAS summit on Mali and Guinea Bissau
27/04/2012 - France - Mali

France to support Ecowas troops in Mali, Guinea Bissau

France has welcomed plans by West African leaders to send troops to Mali and Guinea Bissau.

27/04/2012 - Nigeria

Nigeria newspaper bombing sparks journalists call for Boko Haram talks

Nigeria's National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is urging the government to step up security around media houses across the country.

27/04/2012 - Report: Nigeria

Nigerian school attacks - Boko Haram to blame?

So far this year 14 schools have been burnt down in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno state, forcing over 7,000 children out of formal education and pushing down enrolment rates in an ...

Europe fails to protect Muslims from discrimination, report
25/04/2012 - World news explained

Europe fails to protect Muslims from discrimination, report

Human rights group Amnesty International has released a new report, Choice and Prejudice: discrimination against Muslims in Europe.

11/04/2012 - Report: France

One year of France's burka ban yields 20 fines and no men prosecuted

France’s law banning face-covering garments in public came into force a year ago – a defence of secular values and women’s rights, according to its proponents, a bad case of ...

08/04/2012 - France

Unite France don't divide it, controversial Muslim academic tells Sarkozy

Swiss Islamic intellectual Tariq Ramadan laid into French President Nicolas Sarkozy in a speech to the annual meeting of a major Muslim organisation Saturday.

07/04/2012 - France

Stop stigmatising Muslims, Islamic leader tells French politicians

French politicians are stigmatising Muslims, the leader of one of France’s major Islamic organisations said at the opening of its annual conference near Paris on Saturday.

04/03/2012 - France

Sarkozy calls for immigration reform, halal labelling at election rally

French President Nicolas Sarkozy shifted his campaign to be reelected to the right at a rally on Saturday, calling for new restrictions on immigration and taking up one of far-right candidate ...

06/02/2012

French press review 6 February 2012

The failure to curb killing in Syria and Interior Minister Claude Guéant's attempt to explain why his racist comment, about all civilisations not being equal, grab the headlines in the ...

19/01/2012 - Bangladesh

Islamist-inspired coup foiled, says Bangladesh army

Bangladesh’s army says it has foiled a coup plot by Islamist officers.

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