Thousands of Yazidis flocked to a shrine in northern Iraq to mark the New Year on Wednesday, in the minority’s biggest gathering since it was targeted for genocide by jihadists. Wearing traditional Yazidi clothes, holding candles and paraffin lamps, they started gathering in the holy town of Lalish on Tuesday for celebrations ahead of their … Read more
From a distance, there’s little to suggest that the building at the entrance of the Druze heartland village of Mukhtara in Lebanon’s Chouf mountains is a mosque. After all, despite practising a faith that is an offshoot of Shiite Islam, the Druze do not worship at mosques, and the building strays far from the traditional … Read more
A renowned playwright, Mr Ebo Whyte, has blamed some of the perennial challenges confronting the country on the failure of successive leaders to learn from the mistakes of the past. “As a people we have not learnt from history, and keep repeating the mistakes that were made decades ago. We need to learn from these … Read more