Hajj and Umrah News - South Africa

16 Jan 2019

GACA provides support to aviation security & safety regionally and globally

Al Tamimi also discussed the Kingdom’s interest in the Muslim population around the world and the effort put in facilitating the performance of Haj and Umrah. He cited the data that showed pilgrims arriving from outside the Kingdom making up to 94% of all pilgrims, and Umrah takers which amounted to 10.3 million in 2017. Moreover, according to the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, that number would increase to 30 million per year.

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16 Jan 2019

FNC urges the expansion of Hajj quota for Emiratis

The Federal National Council has urged officials to request a larger quota for Emiratis to perform Hajj. Each year, Hajj officials in Saudi Arabia allow each country a certain number of pilgrims. In 2018, the UAE was allowed to send 6,228 pilgrims, and in 2017 they were allowed 4,631.

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15 Jan 2019

Jabal Omar, Northacre form strategic partnership

Jabal Omar Development Company (JODC), one of the biggest real estate developers in the Kingdom, and the Saudi stock exchange (Tadawul) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the British company Northacre, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Financial Group. The MoU was signed by the CEO of JODC Yasser bin Faisal Al-Sharif and CEO of Northacre Nicolo Barateeri. This

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15 Jan 2019

Umrah ship carrying 317 Egyptians arrives in Yanbu

Meanwhile, Minister of Haj and Umrah Dr. Mohammed Benten received separately in Makkah on Monday Ahmed Hamza Al-Mahdi, chairman of Libyan Pilgrims Committee and a member of the presidential council, and Sri Lankan Minister of Posts, Postal Services and Muslim Religious Affairs Mohamed Hashim Abdul Haleem.

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