A group of teenagers and young adults in Niger have recruited influencers, comedians and gone online as part of a national ...

Counting sheep: Across Senegal's capital, Dakar, rams crowd streets and parks destined to be sacrificed for Tabaski "It's a party, it's joy, you know. We go to mosque in beautiful new clothes ...

For Senegalese households, Tabaski usually means a tenfold increase ... Among other electoral promises, the ruling party also committed to reviewing fishing permits for foreign companies to ...

As millions in Senegal prepare for Tabaski, health officials warn that COVID-19 cases are dramatically surging in the West African nation. In just weeks, new confirmed cases have risen from dozens ...

Properly celebrating Tabaski, as Eid al-Adha is known in Senegal, requires a sacrificial sheep. Coronavirus restrictions have made the animals more expensive, putting them out of reach of many.

Senegal is preparing for its most important religious celebration of the year: Tabaski. During this muslim festival, it's customary to sacrifice a sheep. But for sheep farmers in particular ...

DAKAR, SENEGAL—Sheep, sheep, everywhere you looked. Sheep penned on the roadsides and beaches, grazing on the highway medians, overflowing the sidewalks. My kids stopped to pet them on the walk ...

For weeks, the assembled mass of sheep and goats had been growing at a daily rate in advance of the recent Muslim festival of Tabaski. I pass by the slaughter house on my daily commute aboard a ...

"It's a party, it's joy, you know ... fine ovine specimens trying to find shelter from the midday sun. This is Tabaski - known elsewhere as Eid al-Adha - the biggest festival and holiday of ...