Africa

At least 137 Nigerien civilians were killed on Sunday in an attack on several localities near the Malian border, the Nigerien government said in a statement late Monday.“In the afternoon of Sunday March 21, 2021 at around 1 p.m. (1200GMT),…

Fatima Kabiru Ahmed, daughter of the martyr Kabiru Ahmed, who was killed by the Nigerian police on January 26, filed a lawsuit against the Inspector General of Police, Muhammad Adamu, who ordered the shooting of peaceful protesters and caused the…

Ahlulbayt followers in Madagascar revived the birth anniversary of al-Abbas ibn Ali, peace be upon him.The Ahlulbayt Center, affiliated with the Shirazi Religious Authority, in the city of Majunga, Madagascar, held a joyful celebration on the occasion.The celebration was attended…

Tanzania makes history as the country’s new hijab-wearing president takes the reigns and steps out of the shadow of John Magufuli’s Covid-19 denying presidency.Tanzania has sworn its first female Muslim president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, days after she announced the death…

Children as young as 11 have been beheaded by ISIS terrorists in Mozambique’s restive northernmost province of Cabo Delgado, where an escalation in violence that intensified last year has killed thousands of people and forced hundreds of thousands from their…

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…