Omar Victor Diop’s Project Diaspora photographic series offers a profound exploration of the often-overlooked narratives of ...

Standard Bank’s Shari’ah Banking has been crowned Africa’s Best Islamic Bank for the second consecutive year at the 2025 Euromoney Islamic Finance Awards. The bank also received the award ...

For more information on Shari’ah Banking, click here. In 2024, Standard Bank Shari’ah Banking became the first Sub-Saharan African bank to win the title of Africa’s Best Islamic Bank.

The research, published in the journal Genome Biology, found that North African ancestry was already present in the region between the 4th and 8th centuries, long before the Islamic conquest of 711.

Best Islamic bank 2025: Standard Bank Shari’ah Banking Standard Bank Shari’ah Banking has emerged as the driving force behind the growth of Islamic finance in South Africa and is positioning itself as ...

Flag football is headed to Egypt this summer! @IFAFMedia, the @NFL and @EFAFEG have announced Cairo as the host for the inaugural IFAF 2025 Africa Flag Championships, which will also feature youth ...

More than 17 million people visited the North African Kingdom last year and the tourism industry makes up more than 7% of its GDP. Morocco is the only in North Africa not to have experienced a ...

Africa’s energy sector is seeing growing interest from Islamic financial institutions, as demonstrated by the recent $400 million Murabaha financing secured by Africa Finance Corporation (AFC). This ...

Last weekend, insurgents from IS-aligned groups the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram launched a pre-dawn raid on a military base in the northern Nigerian state of Borno, ...

At least 35 people were injured. The suspect, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S. citizen from Texas who once served in Afghanistan, was flying an Islamic State flag during the assault.

New Orleans car attacker had Islamic State group flag, was a US military veteran Car ramming on New Years Day killed at least 10 people, and injured dozens more ...

Indeed, the Berbers — also known as the Imazighen, or "free men" — have lived in North Africa since the beginning of recorded human history. Evidence of their existence in the Maghreb region dates ...