THE Shia Imami Ismaili Community in Tanzania has celebrated a major milestone with the unveiling of the Fanoos, a symbolic lantern representing light, hope and unity, at the historic event held in Dar ...

Also present were Said bin Hilal al Ismaili, Omani representative in the Oman-Tanzania Business Council, and a number of Omani and Tanzanian businesspeople. In his opening remarks, Dr Abdallah ...

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan and the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (Party of the Revolution—CCM) are intensifying their repression of the main opposition party, CHADEMA (Party for ...

In Tanzania alone, 100,000 of them control more ... top private schools run by the Ismaili sects and the Indians have been forced to take up to 50% blacks. Kenya’s chief economic planner ...

Ismaili Muslims are considered to be a branch ... Portugal, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania and Uganda. The foundation also has offices in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States ...

The entry of the Ismaili community and principally HH the ... including Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania with a particular focus on early childhood and girls’ education, especially for those in ...

Karim Hirji, in his memoir Growing Up with Tanzania, recalls the Aga Khan’s edict in 1945 ... Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s Ismaili family lived in Uganda, where peanuts grow well. She suggests roast matoke, ...

A legacy rooted in history The Aga Khan is the spiritual leader of an estimated 15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims around the world, with a marked presence in Kenya, Tanzania, and Burundi ...

two weeks after his grandfather the Aga Khan III unexpectedly made him heir to the family’s 1,300-year dynasty as leader of the Ismaili Muslim sect. He became the Aga Khan IV on Oct. 19, 1957, in Dar ...

Born in Geneva, the Aga Khan spent his childhood in Kenya and was appointed in Tanzania to succeed his ... the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims. Our thoughts are with his family and the wider ...