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Abdalla Mwidau
Abdalla Ndovu Mwidau (died 1986) was a Kenyan politician who served as Mayor of Mombasa and as a member of parliament for the Likoni Constituency. Mwidau is noted as having been a prominent Muslim supporter of Israel. Arye Oded. Islam and politics in Kenya. p.129. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000 Career After Kenya alongside a majority of African countries broke ties with Israel following the Yom Kippur War, Mwidau argued that Kenya did not receive its economic benefit in the form of foreign investment by Arab countries. In 1979, Mwidau worked on behalf of a pro-Israel information campaign directed at Muslim Americans that highlighted Israeli financial support for developing African nations. In 1980, Mwidau criticized religious sectarianism and stated that "we African Moslems are not enemies of the Jewish community" and urged inter-religious cooperation. Mwidau criticized efforts to partition Jerusalem, arguing that it should solely serve as the capital of Israel and that div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mombasa
Mombasa ( ; ) is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean. It was the first capital of the British East Africa, before Nairobi was elevated to capital city status. It now serves as the capital of Mombasa County. The town is known as "the white and blue city" in Kenya. It is the country's oldest (circa 900 AD) and second-largest List of cities in Kenya, cityThe World Factbook . Cia.gov. Retrieved on 17 August 2013. after the capital Nairobi, with a population of about 1,208,333 people according to the 2019 census. Its metropolitan region is the second-largest in the country, and has a population of 3,528,940 people. Mombasa's location on the Indian Ocean made it a historical trading centre, and it has been controlled by ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Likoni Constituency
Likoni is among the six constituencies in Mombasa County with five wards which include Timbwani which is the largest, Bofu, Mtongwe, Likoni and Shika Adabu. The current Member of Parliament for Likoni is Hon Mishi Juma Mboko who is a member of the Orange Democratic Movement party and took over from Mwalim Masoud Mwahima in 2017 who ran on a jubilee ticket. Inspire of many cases of insecurity in the constituency, the member of Parliament is working with the national government to make likoni a safe place for the Likonians Members of Parliament 2017 to date) Mishi Juma mboko(ODM) Locations and wards References External links Map of the constituency {{coord missing, Kenya Constituencies in Mombasa County Constituencies in Coast Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muslim Supporters Of Israel
Muslim supporters of Israel refers to both Muslims and cultural Muslims who support the right to self-determination of the Jewish people and the likewise existence of a Jewish homeland in the Southern Levant, traditionally known as the Land of Israel and corresponding to the modern polity known as the State of Israel. Muslim supporters of the Israeli state are widely considered to be a rare phenomenon in light of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the larger Arab–Israeli conflict. Within the Muslim world, the legitimacy of the State of Israel has been challenged since its inception, and support for Israel's right to exist is a minority orientation. Pro-Israel Muslims have faced opposition from both moderate Muslims and Islamists, with many being subjected to harassment, threats and violence. Some Muslim clerics such as Abdul Hadi Palazzi of the Italian Muslim Assembly and author Muhammad Al-Hussaini believe that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arye Oded
Arye Oded (5 May 1929 - 2 March 2019) was an Israeli diplomat, scholar, and author of books and research articles about Africa - Israel relations, Islam, and Judaism in Africa. Oded was a Research Fellow at the Abba Eban Centre for Israeli Diplomacy of the Hebrew University's Truman Institute in Jerusalem. Childhood Oded was born during the British Mandate in 1929 in the Old City of Jerusalem to parents who had come from Aden in the early 1920s. In 1936, the family was caught up in the violent Arab riots in Jaffa and was helped by Christian-Arab neighbors. After the death of his father in 1938, he was raised in an Orthodox orphanage. Army service After high school in 1947, Oded volunteered to work in and defend kibbutz Manara bordering Lebanon and a year later, at the outbreak of the 1947–1949 Palestine war, he joined a unit of the Palmach which had arrived to help defend the kibbutz which was under siege by the Arabs, led by the Syrian General Fawzi_al-Qawuqji. Dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from October 6 to 25, 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. The majority of combat between the two sides took place in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights—both of which were occupied by Israel in 1967—with some fighting in African Egypt and northern Israel. Egypt's initial objective in the war was to seize a foothold on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal and subsequently leverage these gains to negotiate the return of the rest of the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula. The war began on October 6, 1973, when the Arab coalition jointly launched a surprise attack against Israel on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, which had occurred during the 10th of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in that year. Following the outbreak of hostilities, both the United States and the Soviet U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Countries
The Arab world ( ar, اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ '), formally the Arab homeland ( '), also known as the Arab nation ( '), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, refers to a vast group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa, that linguistically or culturally share an Arab identity. A majority of people in these countries are either ethnically Arab or are Arabized, speaking the Arabic language, which is used as the '' lingua franca'' throughout the Arab world. The Arab world is at its minimum defined as the 18 states where Arabic is natively spoken. At its maximum it consists of the 22 members of the Arab League, an international organization, which on top of the 18 states also includes the Comoros, Djibouti, Somalia and the partially recognized state of Palestine. The region stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Indian Ocean in the southeast. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea, and shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel also is bordered by the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively. Tel Aviv is the economic and technological center of the country, while its seat of government is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, although Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is unrecognized internationally. The land held by present-day Israel witnessed some of the earliest human occupations outside Africa and was among the earliest known sites of agriculture. It was inhabited by the Canaanites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Status Of Jerusalem
The status of Jerusalem is disputed in both international law and diplomatic practice, with both the Israelis and Palestinians claiming Jerusalem as their capital city.Moshe Hirsch, Deborah Housen-Couriel, Ruth Lapidoth''Whither Jerusalem?: Proposals and Positions Concerning the future of Jerusalem'' Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995. pg. 15. . The dispute has been described as "one of the most intractable issues in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict", with conflicting claims to sovereignty over the city or parts of it, and access to its holy sites. The main dispute revolves around the legal status of East Jerusalem and especially the Old City of Jerusalem, while broader agreement exists regarding future Israeli presence in West Jerusalem in accordance with Israel's internationally recognised borders. The majority of United Nations (UN) member states hold the view that the final status of Jerusalem should be resolved through negotiation, and have therefore favored locating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mecca
Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the Holiest sites in Islam, holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow valley above sea level. Its last recorded population was 1,578,722 in 2015. Its estimated metro population in 2020 is 2.042million, making it the List of cities in Saudi Arabia by population, third-most populated city in Saudi Arabia after Riyadh and Jeddah. Pilgrims more than triple this number every year during the Pilgrimage#Islam, pilgrimage, observed in the twelfth Islamic calendar, Hijri month of . Mecca is generally considered "the fountainhead and cradle of Islam". Mecca is revered in Islam as the birthplace of the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad. The Hira cave atop the ("Mountain of Light"), just outside the city, is where Muslims believe the Quran was first revealed to Muhammad. Vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kisauni Constituency
Kisauni Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of six constituencies in Mombasa County. The constituency has seven wards electing councillors for the Mombasa municipal council. With the promulgation of the new constitution in August 2010, Nyali Constituency was carved out from Kisauni Constituency. Members of Parliament {, class="wikitable" , - !Elections !MP !Party !Notes , - , 1988 , , Said Hemed Said , , KANU , , One-party system , - , 1992 , , Rashid M. Mzee , , Ford-Kenya , , , - , 1997 , , Emmanuel Karisa Maitha , , DP , , , - , 2002 , , Emmanuel Karisa Maitha , , NARC , , Maitha died in 2004 , - , 2005 , , Ananiah Mwasambu Mwaboza , , NLP , , By-elections , - , 2007 , , Hassan Ali Joho , , ODM , , , - , 2013 , , Rashid Bedzimba , , ODM , , , - , 2017 , Ali Mbogo Menza , WDM-K , - , 2022 , Rashid Bedzimba , Azimio la Umoja Locations and wards {, class="wikitable" , - , colspan="2", Locations , - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Deaths
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. *January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
