DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — After prayers at the mosque, Ibrahim Lo is off to do some last-minute Christmas shopping. Soon he is eyeing the rows of dolls wrapped in plastic bags on a wooden table as he ...

Sunset over the Atlantic Ocean. “This is all the result of a dream,” Mouhamed Seyni Guèye, the imam of Dakar’s Mosque of the Divinity, told me as we walked its grounds. One night in 1973, Guèye ...

The 10,000 square metre mosque is the largest in West Africa — a project of such magnitude that has not been equalled since the construction of the Touba Mosque in Senegal in 1932. With its five ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- It's been a Ramadan unlike any other for Abdourahmane Sall, far from the mosque during the Muslim holy month as coronavirus cases mount. With only a little over a week left, he ...

Some Senegalese mosques opened their doors on Friday after the government eased coronavirus restrictions, but others judged the rate of infection too high and stayed shut. Senegalese Muslim ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — It’s been a Ramadan ...

Two major mosques in Senegal's capital Dakar said on Thursday that they would not resume prayers, despite a government decision allowing them to, over coronavirus fears. El Hadji Alioune Moussa Samba, ...

An exterior view of a branch of Iran's Al-Mustafa University which teaches Senegalese students Shi'ite Muslim theology in Dakar, Senegal, May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Edward McAllister By Tim Cocks and ...