{"id":198107,"date":"2025-05-15T00:24:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-first-batch-of-sudanese-pilgrims-to-the-holy-lands-begins\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T00:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T22:24:53","slug":"sudan-first-batch-of-sudanese-pilgrims-to-the-holy-lands-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-first-batch-of-sudanese-pilgrims-to-the-holy-lands-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: First Batch of Sudanese Pilgrims to the Holy Lands Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The first batch of Sudanese pilgrims for the Hajj of 1446 Hijri began Tuesday at Osman Digna Port.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The 1,472 pilgrims, both male and female, arrived by sea from the states of River Nile, Al-Gadarif, and Kassala on the &#8220;Kenzi&#8221; ship. They were seen off by the Minister of Tourism in the Red Sea State, Samia Oshaik.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Samia Oshaik said, in a statement to SUNA, that the pilgrims&#8217; departure procedures are proceeding smoothly and neatly by the relevant authorities in the Hajj and Umrah Department, in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505140092.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first batch of Sudanese pilgrims for the Hajj of 1446 Hijri began Tuesday at Osman Digna Port. The 1,472 pilgrims, both male and female, arrived by sea from the states of River Nile, Al-Gadarif, and Kassala on the &#8220;Kenzi&#8221; ship. They were seen off by the Minister of Tourism in the Red Sea State, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":198108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,7247,8082,7197,10639,257,12919,254,4708,1613,7296],"class_list":["post-198107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-batch","tag-begins","tag-holy","tag-lands","tag-news","tag-pilgrims","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}