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Over 11 million people are displaced by conflict and climate change-related natural disasters in Africa every year according to Afrian Union convention on internally displaced persons. (AllAfrica)

A new report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has revealed that poor women especially in Africa will be hardest hit by climate change because they are the poorest but also adds that they hold the key to climate change solutions. (AllAfrica)

A HIV testing drive is on to fight Aids in which more than one million Kenyans are expected to get tested for HIV during a national campaign launched on Monday. (AllAfrica)

The Church in the Sudan has appealed to its counterparts elsewhere in the world to support it on the country's Darfur crisis issue. (AllAfrica)

Ministers at a World Trade Organisation gathering in Geneva next week seeking new ways of alleviating poverty and generating growth are being called upon by faith groups to respect the right to food as enshrined in human rights declarations. Activists opposed to greedy capitalism are to protest in the streets of Geneva on 28 November but the organizers have said the demonstrations will be peaceful and not a repeat of riots that took place in the U.S. city of Seattle 10 years ago. Disagreements about rules on trading in agricultural and industrial goods led to the collapse of talks in Geneva in 2008. (AllAfrica)

CRISIS is brewing in the Catholic Diocese of Benin as some Reverend Fathers are set for a show down with a top priest (names withheld) in the Diocese, who is acting on behalf of the Bishop of the diocese, Bishop Richard Burk, currently being investigated by the Vatican. (AllAfrica)

The Governor of Imo State, Dr. Ikedi Ohakim has commended Muslims in the state for their peaceful disposition and industry, which he said has enhanced the development of the state. (AllAfrica)

A Catholic Archbishop, Most Reverend John Onaiyekan has underscored value re-orientation among politicians in the country as the key to achieving good governance and sustainable development in Nigeria. (AllAfrica)

Budding middleweight boxer Ramadhani Kido will face Kaminja Ramadhan in a non -title bout that will be held at AMREF Mwananyamala Youth Centre on Saturday. (AllAfrica)

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's wife, Turai, left for Saudi Arabia with some family members yesterday to perform the Hajj. THISDAY learnt that the First Lady spent most of yesterday with the husband who has undergone medical tests at an unnamed hospital in Jeddah. (AllAfrica)

THE General Overseer Of Mount Zion Faith Global Liberation Ministries incorporated A.K.A. By Fire By Fire, Pastor Abraham Chris Udeh has prophesied of imminent blood bath against the Igbo race during which he saw blood flowing like a river from the north to the east, advising the Igbo to embark on serious prayers with delay so as to allow God take absolute control of the whole plot. (AllAfrica)

The National Hajj Commission ofNigeria (NAHCON) has directed all states pilgrims welfare boards to provide three free meals for their Pilgrims while in Muna and Arafat. (AllAfrica)

Members of the worldwide Rosicrucian Order (AMORC) in Nigeria will on Saturday, November 21, 2009, converge on the main bowl of the Cross River State Cultural Centre Complex, Calabar for a seminar in honour of Dr. H. Spencer Lewis. (AllAfrica)

In the spirit of the Eid-El-Kabir celebration, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Dimeji Bankole, has charged muslim faithful to concentrate on their steadfastness to God rather than gaining pleasures of this world and losing Aljannah. (AllAfrica)

Over four million pilgrims will gather today to observe one of the most significant rites of Hajj, Arafat, which is very important in the life of every pilgrim who wishes to have a complete and acceptable Hajj. (AllAfrica)

A member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Harsanu Guyaba, has called on the state government to probe the scarcity of accommodation being faced by pilgrims from the state at this year's Hajj. (AllAfrica)

A large number of Muslims spoken to in the Federal Capital Territory yesterday complained that they have no money to buy rams for this year's Sallah festival. (AllAfrica)

In the sprit of Sallah celebration, the Borno State Governor Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has donated three bulls, 10 bags of rice, five jerry cans of vegetable oil and N1,000 to corps members serving in the state for the celebrations. (AllAfrica)

The Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Dimeji Sabur Bankole has called on all Nigerian Muslims to be selfless and committed to the teachings of Islam. (AllAfrica)

Muslims and the government have allayed fears that Kenyans on pilgrimage in Mecca could be among those infected with the dreaded H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu. (AllAfrica)

The government has allayed fears over the spread of the H1N1 virus to 3,000 Kenyan pilgrims paying homage to the holy city of Makkah for the annual Hajj. (AllAfrica)

Residents of Borolong are worried by the mushrooming of churches that have turned the Shashe and Tlhalogang riverbanks into places of worship. (AllAfrica)

As the Muslim feast of 'Eid el Adha', locally called 'Tobaski', is fast approaching, this reporter went round in the Kaniing Municipality.to see how business is faring in relation to the festivity. It is a tradition, in keeping with the religion, that when the feast is coming, Muslims, particularly household heads, buy life animals e.g ram, goat, bull, etc, for sacrifice on the day. This is what had motivated the reporter to visit various 'Daral' locations where rams are sold for the 'Tobaski' to talk to the dealers. (AllAfrica)

The Catholic Bishop of Sunyani, Most Rev. Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi says the church has grown physically with many Parishes and members, but that is not enough as there is the need for Catholic faithful to deepen spirituality, commitment and embark on a renewed and vigorous evangelization for the total growth of the church. (AllAfrica)

Churches should embrace conditions that will encourage children to love God, President Yoweri Museveni has urged. "Our children are growing up in a time of moral decadence. Therefore, the church must set conditions that will encourage them to love God," Museveni noted. (AllAfrica)

General Overseer of The Lord's Chosen Charismatic Revival Church, Pastor Lazarus Muoka has said no nation could record any meaningful development without God. (AllAfrica)

Safiel Kulei's simple statement goes to the heart of the plight of many of his neighbors hit by consecutive years of drought in Kenya. (AllAfrica)

Ugandan Muslim pilgrims who are in the Saudi Arabian cities of Mecca and Medina for the annual Hajj are still safe despite an outbreak of H1N1 flu commonly known as Swine Flu, Daily Monitor has learnt. (AllAfrica)

The Islamic clerics of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a have explained more on big explosions targeted to the centre of Galmudug administration in central Somalia, just as some of key clerics meeting there in north, officials told shabelle Radio on Tuesday. (AllAfrica)

PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda was yesterday among several mourners that attended the requiem mass for former Zambia Army commander, Georjago Musengule's son, Joe, who died last week. (AllAfrica)

Since achieving independence in 1963, Kenya has existed as a classic, patronage state, ruled with an iron fist by a corrupt political elite. Kenya has also become nearly 80 percent Christian, and in this book, Paul Gifford explores the country's diverse churches and their role in shaping public and political life. (AllAfrica)

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