Public commemorations take place in other parts of the world as well. As a scholar of Shiite communities in Africa, I have studied the processions in northern Tanzania. These are usually scheduled ...

The Islamic Movement of Nigeria, popularly known as the Shiite group, has disputed claims by the Federal Capital Territory Police Command that its members killed a security operative and injured ...

Zakzaky has been challenging Abuja's authorities for years with his goal of establishing a Shiite Islamic regime in Nigeria, Africa's largest economy. In late 2016, a court ruled that his continued ...

The Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf, has discharged 56 inmates across two custodial centres in the FCT Command of the Nigerian Correctional Service ...

At the time, the shrine’s protection from Sunni extremists became a rallying cry for some Shiite fighters and Iran-backed groups from beyond Syria’s borders who backed the former government of ...

ABUJA, March 29 (Reuters) - Nigerian police said on Saturday they had come under intense gunfire a day earlier in a neighbourhood of the capital, Abuja, during clashes between security forces and ...

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Shiite Muslims across the globe on Tuesday observed Ashura, an annual commemoration mourning the seventh-century martyrdom of a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. Imam Hussein bin Ali’s death in ...