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April 13, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Pulling out all the stops to push an antigay bill
They entered through Parliament’s gates, an eclectic group. Their leader, the Rev. Martin Ssempa, wore sunglasses and long black robes embroidered with matching red crosses and two campaign buttons. One said, “Debate Our Bill Now!” and the other, simply, “No to Sodomy.”
April 11, 2011 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: African gay-rights activists stand strong as brutality rises
When her fiancée was brutally raped by men who sought to “correct” her sexual orientation, Ndumie Funda vowed to fight for justice.
April 09, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Nigeria holds election despite violence
Nigeria's voters pressed their ink-soaked fingers to ballots Saturday, braving bomb attacks and communal violence to vote in the first round of crucial April elections in the oil-rich nation.
April 03, 2011 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Nigeria election delay marks yet another setback for democracy

Hopes that Nigeria’s critical elections would break the country’s pattern of poorly organized and fraudulent polls were dealt a blow on Saturday after the electoral commission announced a postponement of the parliamentary election once it was already underway.

April 03, 2011 - Sunday Herald
Herald: The next Rwanda? ‘In all districts of Abidjan there is gunfire’
A massacre in a Roman Catholic mission compound in the heart of the Ivory Coast’s cocoa-producing region could come to be seen as a crucial moment in the West African state’s escalating civil war.
March 08, 2011 - The Australian
The Australian: Opinion: West obliged to champion Muslim feminists
On the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, women in most Muslim lands are still oppressed by sharia family law.
February 18, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Voter verification lists hard to find in Nigeria
Student Yakubu Daniel ran his index finger over list after weathered list of voter names and mugshots Friday, searching for his own unsmiling face among those registered for Nigeria's upcoming April elections.
January 27, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Ugandan gay rights activist is beaten to death
An outspoken Ugandan gay activist whose picture recently appeared in an antigay newspaper under the headline “Hang Them” was beaten to death in his home, Ugandan police said Thursday.
January 17, 2011 - Business Day
Business Day: Promise of rights in Muslim marriages

The draft Muslim Marriages Bill has barely come off the printing presses but is already creating a storm of debate within the Muslim community.

January 13, 2011 - The Guardian
The Guardian: For the love of God – or good – support World Interfaith Harmony Week
All over the world there is a struggle taking place within and about religion.
January 12, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Religion and region at play in Nigerian election
Nigeria's ruling political party will pick its presidential candidate Thursday for the April election, a decision that delegates may make based on where the candidate is from rather than what he has to offer.
January 10, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Voting is peaceful in south Sudan despite border clashes
As voters continued flooding the polls on Monday for a landmark referendum on southern Sudan’s independence, officials said more than 40 people had been killed over the weekend in intense skirmishes in a contested area along Sudan’s north-south border.
January 04, 2011 - Religion News Service
RNS: Technology unites missionaries, families around the world
Janine Winkler loves reading books to her 2-year-old grandson Judah, but instead of sitting on her lap at her home in Michigan, he's usually half a world away in Nigeria, where his father works for Wycliffe Bible Translators.
January 03, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Bomb blasts, church attacks show violent Christian, Muslim split in Nigeria ahead of election
Multiple explosions rocked a central Nigerian city, another bomb killed at least four at an army barracks in the capital and a radical Muslim sect burned churches in the northeast.
January 03, 2011 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: As vote nears, Sudan's south anticipates independence and problems
A pistol sits next to a battered radio while Peter Bashir Bandi, a rebel turned political leader, lounges in a gold brocade chair listening to reports about what may soon be the world's newest, and most precarious, nation.
December 08, 2010 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: In Africa, homosexuality emerging as hot-button issue
Long seen as a fringe societal taboo far from the realm of African politics, homosexuality is emerging as a hot-button issue throughout much of the continent.
December 05, 2010 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Muslim World: Poll shows majority want Islam in politics; feelings mixed on Hamas, Hezbollah
A majority of Muslims around the world welcome a significant role for Islam in their countries' political life, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center, but have mixed feelings toward militant religious groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
December 02, 2010 - The Guardian
The Guardian: Undisclosed Muslim country 'paying for anti-piracy force in Somalia'
An undisclosed "Muslim nation" is funding a 1,000-strong, privately trained military force in northern Somalia and has hired a former CIA officer and a senior official from the Bush administration to advise the Somali government on security matters, according to a report.
November 24, 2010 - Religion News Service
RNS: Blasphemy resolution passes U.N. committee
A resolution combating the "vilification of religions" was adopted Tuesday (Nov. 23) by a United Nations committee, but religious freedom advocates who oppose the measure say support for it continues to diminish.
November 23, 2010 - The Associated Press
AP: Hit by AIDS, Africa welcomes pope's condom message
From clerics to AIDS activists, Africans applauded Pope Benedict XVI's suggestion that condoms could be used in limited situations to protect partners — a shift that could make a dramatic impact in a continent that is both battling an HIV pandemic and is the fastest-growing region for the Roman Catholic church.
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