Hajj and Umrah News - South Africa

17 Jan 2020

Algerian-Saudi Negotiations To Raise Algeria's Quota To 41,000 Pilgrims

The deadlines for registration for the Hajj lottery 2020-2021 seasons will end on Saturday, amid great hopes for raising Algeria’s share this year to 41,000 pilgrims after it did not exceed 36,000 for decades, despite the high number of residents in Algeria, where a preparatory delegation moved a few days ago to Riyadh to negotiate the files of hajj quota and prices for this year.

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17 Jan 2020

Hajj and Umrah officials meet Benin delegation

The undersecretary of the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah for Hajj affairs, Hussein Al-Sharif, received Benin’s head of the pilgrim affairs’ delegation, Samo Saido Adambi, at the ministry’s headquarters in Jeddah.

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