Nearly two million people gathers to commemorate the spiritual rank believed to have been attained by Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba, founder of the Mouride Sufi order, during his exile by the French colonial ...

DAKAR: Huge crowds of worshippers converged on Senegal's holy city of Touba on Sunday, as part of the traditional annual celebration of the Mouride brotherhood, a Sufi Islamic order. AFP journalists ...

On Friday, millions of Senegalese Muslims will gather in the Holy city of Touba - the climax of an important annual pilgramage known as 'le Grand Magal'. Touba lies in the centre of the country, in ...

Senegal is celebrating Le Grand Magal, one of Africa’s largest religious gatherings. Millions of worshippers are converging on the city of Touba, in the country’s central-western region, in response ...

TOUBA and DAKAR, Senegal -- Tens of thousands of Muslims descended upon Senegal's holy city this week for the annual Grand Magal pilgrimage, a tradition in West Africa that some fear could become a ...