- “Stakeholders are promoting Islamic microfinance as a solution to financial exclusion in the Philippines, following a capacity-building workshop at Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology.”
- “Morocco’s Justice Minister, Abdellatif Ouahbi, has sparked controversy after saying that a woman’s testimony should carry the same legal weight as that of a man under Moroccan law.”
- In Nigeria, the Kano State Hisbah Board announced that “it has concluded arrangements to conduct a mass wedding for 1,500 couples under its marriage social welfare initiative.”