Chadian police have said anyone wearing a full-face veil will be arrested, a day after a Boko Haram suicide bombing - carried out by an attacker disguised as a women wearing one - left 15 dead.

Casablanca resident Rachida, born Rachel, was allegedly thrown to the street and beaten by her family for converting from Judaism to Islam.

The Ethiopian federal high court fourth criminal bench yesterday passed a guilty verdict on eighteen people: four prominent leaders of the Ethiopian Muslim arbitration committee members, a journalist and thirteen others on counts including attempted terrorism, conspiracy , and incitement.

The government has forcefully tried to introduce the Ahbash sect on the Muslim population of Ethiopia.

Chad has banned people from wearing the full-face veil, following two suicide bomb attacks on Monday. Chad’s government accused Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram of the bombings which killed more than 20 people.

Nairobi (AFP) - The response by Kenyan security forces to a wave of massacres a year ago in Kenya’s coastal region has been marked by beatings, arbitrary detentions and theft, human rights groups said Monday.

Photograph from school play of ‘soldiers’ capturing ‘terrorists’ sparks debate in Tunisia about Islamophobia and the responsibilities of educators.

The authorities in Congo-Brazzaville have banned people from wearing the full-face Islamic veil, including the niqab and the burka, in public places.