Senegal: More than a million pilgrims are expected this week at the Grand Mosque of Touba, home to the tomb of Sheikh Amadou Bamba. The founder of a Sufi Muslim order, and twice exiled by the ...

A member of the Mouride Brotherhood, a Sufi order largely present in Senegal, reads a religious book outside the Great Mosque of Touba on November 19, 2016, during the religious festival of the Magal.

Senegal's influential Mouride Brotherhood on Friday will inaugurate a 30 000-capacity mosque in the capital Dakar, touted as the largest in West Africa and rivalling its opulent peers in Arab nations.