The president of Guinea-Bissau conducts Umrah in Saudi Arabia

 


Umaro Sissoco Embalo, the president of Guinea-Bissau, undertook the Umrah pilgrimage in the holy city of Makkah in western Saudi Arabia, according to a report from the state-run SPA news agency on Tuesday.

A number of representatives from the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques and the special force for the Grand Mosque's security welcomed him upon his arrival at the mosque.

He landed in Jeddah earlier on Tuesday, when the deputy governor of Makkah, Prince Badr bin Sultan, and other Saudi authorities met him at the King Abdulaziz International Airport.


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