melee killed at least two, though details of the incident are unclear. These protests moved the Nigerian government to officially ban the IMN on July 28, 2019, citing "acts of terrorism and illegality." Exactly two years later, Zakzaky would be released, after a court cleared him of all charges. Nizari Ism'ailis in East Africa The most prominent Shia presence in Africa is in East Africa, where followers are almost all of the Ismaili sect, most of which being a result of a deliberate effort by Aga Khan III, the 47th imam of the Nizari Ismaili sect of Islam. However, Shias have lived in East Africa as early as the sixteenth century, with one story claiming the first Shia to migrate to the region having done so while assisting Vasco da Gama. You want to know the first member of our family to be in Africa and when? Well, hisname was Mohamed, and he was known as ‘Kana Maalim’. That name means “Master of the Tiller’, because in the language of Gujarbhadalat, which is where we Badalas are from, the word for tiller, or rudder, is ‘sukhan’. He was the who showed Vasco De Gama the way from Malindi to India'''' Shias began migrating in greater numbers to East Africa with the establishment of the Omani Sultanate in 1840, becoming merchants and readers along the coast. A few decades later, the immigration of Ismaili Shias from India to East Africa greatly increased, as the Aga Khan's efforts to encourage migration began. British official Sir Bartle Frere estimated that more than 700 Ismaili families lived in Zanzibar in 1876, an increase of about three hundred in the past 16 years, a wave of immigration which can be traced directly to "the advice of the imam (Aga Khan III)." The Ismaili community in western India had been stricken with poverty and famine, and the edicts of the imam encouraging migration were done in an attempt for his followers to find greater economic opportunity while remaining under British protection. The current Aga Khan remains active in the region, and has founded a development network dedicated to improving the economic conditions of Ismaili communities around the world, including the East African countries of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Mozambique, where most of the migrants who left India in the late 19th and early 20th centuries moved to. In 1972, Ugandan President Idi Amin ordered the