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Saudi Arabia has cut off diplomatic relations with Iran on Sunday, giving Iranian diplomats 48 hours to leave the country, as the kingdom’s execution of a dissident cleric inflamed sectarian tensions in a region already brimming with conflict, wsj reports. Crowds of incensed Shiite Muslims...

At least 300 members of the Shi’ia sect were killed by the army, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to halt human right abuses in the Nigerian military. “The killing of hundreds of Shia Muslim members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), by...

Tension is currently on in Kaduna as members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria are said to have embarked on a protest over the arrest and detention of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El Zakzaky. Channels Television reported that the protest is currently going on in Tudun Wada and Kawo areas in...

Sa’ad Abubakar, the sultan of Sokoto, has warned the federal government not to allow the crisis between the military and the Shi’ite Islamic Movement of Nigeria go out of hand. According to The Cable, the monarch called on President Muhammadu Buhari to constitute a judicial commission of...