The move, announcedafteracabinetmeeting, meanspeople in theWest Africannationwillwork a half-dayon theMuslimholyday of Friday and get SaturdayandSundayoff.
Holy Week tourists too excited to sleep after Saturday night's Easter Vigil mass ends, at around 2 am, could stay up another five hours or so for more revelry the morning of Easter Sunday.
About 100 police officers arrived in Najaf on Saturday to help calm the Shiite Muslim holy city, which has been besieged by fighting between U.S. forces and a militia loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.