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Current Feed ContentTiwaoune Mawlud Nabi successfulThe muslim Ummah recently concluded the celebration of the 12th day of Rabi al Awal commonly known as Gamo to observed the birth of the Holy Prophet, Mohammed (SAWS) at the Holy city of Tiwaoune. The annual event is celebrated throughout the world every year. This year is the 106th Annual Gamo when Serigne Alhagi Malick Sy of Tiwaoune, in Senegal started celebrating it with his fellow Islamic scholars and Talibes. Khalifa Alhagi Ababacar Sy and his brothers Serigne Alhagi Mansour Sy, Serigne...SENEGAL: Why the`talibe’ problem won’t go awayEmpty cans used for begging line the entrance of a house in the overcrowded neighbourhood of Grand Yoff in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, where a `marabout’ [Koranic teacher] and 10 boys rent two mosquito-infested rooms. The boys sleep together on the concrete floor. Each morning they get up, take the empty cans and head onto the street to beg for breakfast. These boys are `talibes’, followers of a `marabout’, to whom they were entrusted by their families to learn the Koran. But their... |
