The Umma Party was a political party in Zanzibar.

It's the Umma and not Russia who makes things happen

Five Umma Party members were subsequently arrested and detained for a few hours.

However, many of the Umma Party's socialist policies on health, education and social welfare were adopted by the government.

For the many Web sites that attract these disaffected people, it helps that no central authority exists today for the Muslim umma (the world community of Islam).

The leader of the Umma party, Al Mahdi, who had been ousted by the military coup that had formed the basis of the present Government, returned as well.

Some of the Janjaweed leaders were among those said to have been trained in Libya, as many Darfuri followers of the Umma Party were forced in exile in the 1970s and 1980s.

Saudi Sheikh Abdulaziz Tarefe tweeted his support for the Syrian rebels saying Giving hand to the helpless in Syria is a duty for the Umma (Muslim community) before it is a duty for a state.

Once was reportedly arrested at Khartoum airport as he arrived from Cairo and was accused of having contacts with the banned Umma Party and of carrying messages between the opposition in the country and abroad.

The other, Al Umma al Wasat (The Central Nation), is led by Sami al Saadi, the group s former chief ideologist, and Abd al Wahad Qaid, an LIFG military commander and the brother of the deceased Al Qaeda commander Hasan Qaid (Abu Yahya al Libi).

On the Arab level, the State of Qatar has continually called for the airing of issues in the Arab world and for reconciliation, in order to promote Arab solidarity so that the Arab Umma may resume its role in history and in the march of civilization.

In February and March 1994 during Ramadan, several members of the Islamic Ansar sect and the Umma Party were arrested and detained. Several arrests followed a speech critical of the Government by Abdel Mahmud Abbo at Was Nubawi mosque in Omdurman to celebrate the seventeenth day of Ramadan.