Africa

Nigerian sources report that the government has placed elements of the Boko Haram terrorist movement among the Nigerian army, whose mission is to eliminate the Shia presence in the country.The Nigerian sources and a number of civil activists said, “The…

A fire broke out on Sunday, in a private school providing education to Muslim students in the Swedish city of Örebro.The official “SVT” television quoted the director of “Al Salam Skolan” school, Hussein Al-Dawoudi, saying that the school administration was…

Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released, the state’s governor said Tuesday.Zamfara state governor Bello Matawalle announced that 279 girls have been freed. The government last week said…

Nigerian authorities are searching for hundreds of schoolgirls who were kidnapped by gunmen in a raid early Friday morning, according to police in the northwestern state of Zamfara.Police Commissioner Abutu Yaro told reporters that 317 girls had been kidnapped from…

Gunmen killed 36 people in two attacks in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, a day after insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades amid worsening security facing Africa’s most populous nation, officials and residents said.The series of attacks by armed bandits occurred over the…

Since Boko Haram’s kidnapping of dozens of girls from the Chibok School in April 2014, no one has heard anything about them, and their liberation efforts have been unsuccessful, so their lives in captivity in camps for several years have…

Kwara State, Nigeria, directed an immediate, but temporary closure of some grant-aided schools in Ilorin pending the resolution of a Hijab controversy in the schools.Mrs Kemi Adeosun, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, said in a statement…

Algeria has decided to reopen all mosques across the country for daily and Friday prayers.The country’s presidential office said the places of worship will open again with observation of the health protocols.The decision was made after a reduction in the…

The Islamic Seminary of Imam Jafar al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, in Moradi province, Niger, held a scientific symposium that shed light on the great role played by the Noble Prophet and his family, peace be upon them, and their…

Niger witnessed the commencement of building the first Husseiniyyah and Islamic seminary for women, in the presence of a group of religious figures and general followers of the Ahlulbayt, peace be upon them.This comes with the efforts of the Sayyed…