Hajj season
As part of ongoing efforts to monitor the pilgrims’ journey, the Assistant Minister of Interior for Administrative Affairs and Head of the Executive Body of the Ministerial Committee for Hajj revealed new details regarding the progress of the Hajj delegation in Saudi Arabia.
Minister of Social Solidarity and Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the National Foundation for Facilitating Hajj, Maya Morsi, announced that the Foundation has completed all preparations for the departure of pilgrims to the holy sites in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the 1447 AH (2026 CE) Hajj season.
Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly has ordered the swift revocation of licenses for 16 tourism companies that organized the travel of unregistered pilgrims without providing them with the necessary services, resulting in the tragic deaths of many individuals.
Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly ordered cancelling Islamic pilgrimage, aka Hajj, at the expense of the state during the 2023 Hajj season in a meeting with ministers on Tuesday.
Thomson Reuters Foundation- Some 2 million people are expected to travel across the globe to eat
As many as 1,289 Egyptian pilgrims have arrived at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah and 4,565 others in Medina, Egypt’s Consul General in Jeddah.
