Many of the street vendors commonly seen in Italy, France and Spain selling sunglasses, bags and souvenirs are members of a highly industrious, entrepreneurial branch of Sufi Islam, which has its ...

“All these factors have helped make the Mourides one of the more successful African communities, at home and abroad. Wherever they are, they club together to acquire a mosque and community centre.

Work on the Massalikul Jinaan ("The Paths to Paradise") mosque began a decade ago on a swampy six-hectare (14-acre) site in the poor area of Bopp, on land donated by the government of this 90-percent ...

En ski alpin, les Suissesses ont connu un week-end "sans" à Cortina d’Ampezzo, où elles n’ont jamais trouvé leurs marques. Mais ces contre-performances n’enlèvent rien au mérite de l’équipe de vitesse ...

TOUBA, Senegal (Reuters) - Buy a watch or a CD from an African street-seller in New York, Paris, or Rome and your money could find its way to this dusty Senegalese city controlled by a powerful Muslim ...

Serigne Sidy Mokhtar Mbacké est décédé dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi à l’âge de 94 ans. Le septième khalife général de la confrérie mouride, qui rassemble un tiers des Sénégalais, a été inhumé tôt ...

DAKAR: Senegal´s influential Mouride Brotherhood on Friday will inaugurate a 30,000-capacity mosque in the capital Dakar, touted as the largest in West Africa and rivalling its opulent peers in Arab ...

Tim Judah travels to Senegal to report on the Mourides, an increasingly powerful Senegalese Muslim movement that stresses the importance of hard work Many of the African street sellers in cities like ...

Senegal’s influential Mouride Brotherhood will tomorrow inaugurate a 30,000-capacity mosque in the capital Dakar, touted as the largest in West Africa and rivalling its opulent peers in Arab nations.

Senegal's influential Mouride Brotherhood on Friday will inaugurate a 30 000-capacity mosque in the capital Dakar, touted as the largest in West Africa and rivalling its opulent peers in Arab nations.