Fear as Ugandan Muslim clerics reported missing

Four Muslim clerics go missing in the Ugandan capital several weeks after two other clerics were killed, a community leader says.

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Rebels Abduct Six Muslim Clerics in DRC
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Unidentified rebels abducted six Tanzanian Muslim clerics and their driver in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, religious authorities said on Wednesday. The imams and their Congolese driver were kidnapped on Sunday between the villages of ...
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 A Ugandan Muslim sheikh and 17 others have been charged with killing two fellow clerics, a case police said Friday is linked to Islamist rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo.

Muslim clerics insist on maintaining peace
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President of Zanzibar and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council Dr. Ali Mohamed Shein offers Eid-el-Fitr to the disabled Muslim women who paid him a visit at the State House inZanzibar Yesterday. Tanzanians have the noble duty to maintain peace and ...

Arusha bomb blast injures Muslim clerics
Daily News
ANOTHER bomb has exploded in Arusha City. The hand grenade was thrown into a residential house in Majengo area in which some Muslim leaders were taking a pre-fast Ramadhan meal called Suhoor in the early hours of Friday Morning. Speaking at the ...

Plea for help to find fate of missing Zanzibar clerics
Daily News
MUSLIMS in Zanzibar and family members of the missing clerics on Saturday appealed to the government and international community to help bring back home six Muslim clerics kidnapped in DRC's war province almost a month ago. On August 3, this year, ...

>Brutal beheadings recorded on video by the jihadist Islamic State are intended to terrorise the group’s enemies, but are also angering and alienating the Muslims the group claims to represent.

>Every fear was justified. The mood was somber on the hot Friday afternoon as Uganda returned from the woeful 30-day outing where the Cricket Cranes finished last at the ICC World Cup Qualifier event in New Zealand.

Militants kill at least 20 people, said to be mostly women and children, in the second massacre in two days near the DR Congo town of Beni.