TOUBA, Senegal (Reuters) - The leader of Senegal's powerful Mouride Muslim brotherhood has died at the age of 92, throwing into mourning a movement that holds huge influence and whose trade networks ...

TOUBA, Senegal (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sight of a million Muslims on pilgrimage usually brings to mind images of the Saudi holy city of Mecca, where the annual hajj brings followers of Islam together from around the world. But last ...

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 ...

TOUBA, Senegal (Reuters) - Organisers of an annual religious festival in the Senegalese city of Touba are expecting three to five million pilgrims this week, despite the main ceremony on Tuesday being ...

TOUBA, Senegal (Reuters Life!) - Abdoulaye Gueye is too poor for the pilgrimage to Mecca but the Senegalese Muslim could afford an 18-hour journey in a rusting seven-seater taxi to reach the holy city ...

Pilgrims from the Mouride Brotherhood, stand in line as they wait to enter in a mausoleum of a religious leader, at Grand Mosque of Touba as part of the celebrations of the Grand Magal of Touba, ...

TOUBA, Senegal (AP) — 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 ...