Dancing around the lantern

Kicking off Ramadan

By AFP Published: Apr 13, 2021 06:13 PM

On Tuesday, children dance around a lantern during a street celebration hosted by a local cultural NGO on the first night of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in the old town of Iraq's northern city of Mosul, Iraq. Ramadan 2021 begins on Tuesday and will end on May 12. Photo: AFP

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