Two armed men, including one wielding a knife, attacked Mali’s interim president Assimi Goïta on Tuesday in the Great Mosque in the capital Bamako, an AFP journalist who witnessed the event said. The attack took place during prayers for the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha. Goïta has since been taken from ...
Muslim pilgrims cast sanitize pebbles on Monday as they took part in the “stoning of the devil”, the major ritual of Hajj which is again under tight coronavirus restrictions. From first light, small groups of pilgrims made their way across the Valley of Mina near Mecca in western Saudi Arabia ...