Al Qaeda-linked Islamists declared on Thursday they had secured full control of Mali’s desert north from separatist rebels with whom they had temporarily joined forces to seize territory earlier this ...

Does religion shape society less or more than society shapes it? Less, according to this solidly researched study of the comparative status of Muslim women in northern Nigeria and Senegal.

Reviewed by H. F. C. Smith, "Islam in West Africa," Ibadan (Ibadan, Nigeria) no. 15, March 1963, pages 31-33 https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...

The Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) announced yesterday that it rolled up an Islamic State (IS) financial network that spanned three unspecified West African countries. According to Iraqi ...