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Nigeria on Friday announced the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa. “The case is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria on the 25th of February 2020,” Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said in a

Saudi Arabia announced early Thursday that entry for individuals aiming to perform Umrah pilgrimage or to visit the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah has been temporarily suspended over concerns of the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. Umrah, a lesser pilgrimage compared

A Dutch court on Wednesday sentenced a person to 90 days in jail for threatening Muslims on social media. According to a statement by the court, the 33-year-old person threatened Muslims with death after the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand. On

Two weeks before the upcoming election in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to implement direct flights from Tel Aviv to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, in a Facebook post which was deleted moments after going live online. Written in both Arabic

The Tripoli-based internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) called on the U.N. on Thursday to bring putschist Khalifa Haftar to account for his recent violations of the cease-fire that happened just one day after the U.N. Security Council adopted a

Climate change impacts threaten economic and development gains across Africa. To address the pressing needs of this crisis, the European Union has announced EUR 1 million in new funding to the Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI). The grant will be implemented by

An Indian nurse working at a hospital in southwestern Saudi Arabia has been infected by the coronavirus amid an outbreak that has killed 17 people in China, India’s minister of state for external affairs said Thursday. “About 100 Indian nurses, mostly

China broadened its unprecedented, open-ended lockdowns to encompass around 41 million people Friday to try to contain a deadly new virus that has sickened hundreds, though the measures’ potential for success is uncertain. At least 13 cities have been shut down,