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In a compound in Nigeria’s north-western state of Kaduna, Godwin Josiah and his cousins hang green fabric on a gate as they get ready to shoot a movie scene. Using a smartphone and a tripod made from a broken microphone stand, they start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adzP5p2RC7U A blower...

Digital Mimbar -Brother Aaron is a convert to Islam who came straight from the hard streets of Compton. Please make dua for him he was diagnosed with 6 months to live because of cancer. SOURCE:Digital Mimbar

US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital has been met with a wave of disapproval. Leaders from within the Muslim world and from the wider international community were swift to criticise the move, and warned of the potential for violence and...

Turkish president lashes out at US-led forces as Russia says new Washington defence policy would empower "jihadists". Turkey and Russia have separately accused the United States of backing what they call "terrorist groups" in Syria, on the same day they agreed to push for talks...

Democrats were projected to take control of the House late Tuesday and pick up some governorships, but Republicans were poised to expand their majority in the Senate, delivering a split verdict in the first national referendum on Donald Trump’s presidency. The most expensive and consequential...

By: staff Writer  The Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu, encourages dialogue and compromise in bringing a solution to the negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. "The negotiation of an arrangement to pave...

Horndiplomat-Seychelles condemns the early release of the 19 convicted pirates by Somaliland Government. The following statement was issued today by the Seychelles Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Seychelles has written to express its strong disapproval of the decision of Somaliland authorities to release, yesterday, the 19 pirates...

Horndiplomat-The IGAD Council of Ministers held its 65th Extra-ordinary session at the UNECA today, Wednesday, September 12, in Addis Ababa. The Foreign Ministers of IGAD member countries, Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda, as well as representatives of the AU Commission, the...

Fatimah Hussein was born in Somalia and immigrated to Minneapolis when she was 6 with her family, fleeing civil war. Ms. Hussein and her sister played softball when they were young, but in middle school they stopped, as did many of their Muslim peers. “It...

As world leaders gathered for the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, two Somali immigrants to the United States found themselves there too – living in the childhood home of President Donald Trump. Eiman Ali and Abdi Iftin moved into the old homestead...