Africa

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…

The Republic of Ghana witnessed joyous celebrations on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Lady Fatima al-Zahraa, peace be upon her, which came as a result of the efforts of the Shirazi Religious Authority in disseminating the thought and…

12 security agents were killed on Sunday by a roadside bomb planted on the outskirts of Somali town where political leaders had gathered to try and resolve a row over the presidential selection process set to take place on Monday.The…

A group of Nigerian opposition figures and citizens called for an investigation into the violations committed by the former Chief of Staff of the Army Tukur Buratai against the Nigerian people, especially his massacre of 300 Shias in the Zaria…