Dutse, Nigeria, April 1, 2025 (AFP) - Trumpets, guns, horses: northern Nigeria's Durbar ends Ramadan in style

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2025-04-01

Veiled women ululated as the blare of trumpets and booms of hunting guns filled the air, heralding the approach of the emir in a huge procession of horseback riders draped in colourful robes and turbans. Durbar, a festivities-filled procession held each Eid, saw Emir Hameem Nuhu Sunusi, of the Jigawa state capital Dutse, ride through his city as traditional leaders across the rest of Nigeria's Muslim-majority north did the same. In Dutse -- also......

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