Young boys hold pro-Morsi placards during a protest on August 24, 2013 in Sheikh Ahmad Tijjani mosque, Kano, Nigeria.
Thousands of Muslims rallied peacefully in
northern Nigeria on Saturday to demand the return of Egypt’s Islamist former
president Mohamed Morsi, ousted by the military early last month.
Around 4,000 demonstrators carrying banners and placards
chanted pro-Morsi songs and slogans outside a mosque in northern Nigeria’s biggest
city, Kano, an AFP reporter witnessed. Organisers put the number of protesters
at 5,000.
Egypt has been rocked by political unrest since Morsi’s
ouster in a July 3 military coup after massive protests against him.
“We call for the immediate release of president Mohamed
Morsi and all political prisoners being detained by the illegitimate Egyptian
authorities,” protest leader Sheikh Abubakar Mujahid told reporters.
“Morsi must return to his position as president.”
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation of 160 million
people, is evenly divided between a mainly Muslim north and predominantly
Christian south.
It is grappling with a four-year insurgency by Islamist
group Boko Haram mainly in the country’s northeast.
The violence has claimed some 3,600 lives, including
killings by security forces, which launched a military offensive in May to try
to end the insurgency.
Ok now....I'm tempted to ask, "have you finished solving the problem in your own country?" but i won't ask
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