This article is from Friday Links | January 20, 2012. A research in Iraqi Kurdistan proves that there is a link between mental disorders and Female Genital Mutilation. Iraqi Kurdistan has banned FGM last year, but at the moment, an approximate 40% of the female population in Kurdistan has undergone this procedure. In Sudan, an opposition leader has received [...]

Iraqi political leader Ayad Allawi has told Al Jazeera his Iraqiya bloc could end its month-long boycott of parliament. But, he said that would only happen if Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government respects the power-sharing agreement between the major forces in the country. Iraqiya began boycotting parliament and cabinet sessions after Maliki’s government issued an [...]

Religion has always played a major role in US politics, especially in presidential elections. As Republican presidential hopefuls battle it out to take on President Barack Obama in November, many Americans, who are mostly Protestant or Catholic, are basing who they vote for in the primaries on the candidate’s religious values. Rob Reynolds reports from [...]

Soon after Barack Obama was elected president of the United States in 2008, he issued official statements citing the major issues facing a specific poverty-stricken school in the state of South Carolina. But years afterwards, the public school, which was built in 1917 in the city of Dillon, continues to fall apart due to a [...]

Co-ordinated attacks claimed by a radical Islamist sect killed at least 143 people in north Nigeria’s largest city, hospital records seen Saturday show, as gunfire still echoed around some areas of the sprawling city. A hospital official said that number represented those victims in a mortuary at Kano’s largest hospital, as well as those whose [...]