“This one is Shiite, these ones are also Shiite,” he said. “And these ones, they are still Sunni.” ...

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 ...

Sunni and Shiite participants attend the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea, Jordan, May 20.

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 ...

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 ...

During Syria’s civil war, protecting the revered Sayyida Zeinab shrine was a rallying cry for some Shiite fighters and groups ...

The protest, held on Friday in Abuja by the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), saw supporters of the banned Shiite movement gather ... revolution in the west African nation. However at the time ...

And this was not the first as the Shiites have a history of clashes with ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 news and information items ...