Hajj and Umrah News - South Africa

23 May 2018

SAMA starts withdrawing SR1 notes from market

In December 2016, SAMA unveiled the sixth issue of Saudi currency, including the new one-riyal and two-riyal coins, in addition to coins in the denominations of 50 halalah, 25 halalah, 10 halalah, 5 halalah and one halalah.

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23 May 2018

Special forces ensure pilgrims’ safety

Al-Osaimi urged pilgrims and worshippers not to pray in the pathways inside the mosque as it would obstruct the movement of the worshippers to and from the mosque. “We have introduced a new system to absorb the crowds in the mataf area when worshippers line up for prayers by creating special pathways for their movement to vacant areas,” he said.

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23 May 2018

Exhaustion, heat blamed for fatal accidents in Ramadan

The workers, hailing from Nepal, India and Bangladesh, worked in a date farm in Madinah. They were on their way back to Madinah in a bus after performing Umrah on the first day of Ramadan. The bus overturned near Madinah on Friday killing nine people on the spot and injuring 19 others, some of them critically. One of the injured succumbed on the way to hospital.

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23 May 2018

Provisionally selected list of pilgrims issued

GreaterKashmir: Executive Officer, State Haj Committee, in pursuance to Hajj Committee of India Circular No. 29 of 21stMay 2018 today said the pilgrims wait-listed from GWL-689 to GWL-814 have been provisionally

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