SUDAN: STATE VISIT OF KING FEISAL OF SAUDI ARABIA-TOUR OF ISLAMIC SCHOOL, OMDURMAN; AND VISIT TO ABA ISLAND.

Record ID: 189633

  • Title: SUDAN: STATE VISIT OF KING FEISAL OF SAUDI ARABIA-TOUR OF ISLAMIC SCHOOL, OMDURMAN; AND VISIT TO ABA ISLAND.
  • Date: 12th March 1966
  • Summary: KING FEISAL AT ISLAMIC SCHOOL; VISIT TO ABA ISLAND. 1. LV KING FEISAL ESCORTED BY MOTORCYCLIST APPROACHES ISLAMIC SCHOOL 0.03 2. SV CROWD 0.05 3. SV KING FEISAL IN CAR 0.8 4. CU SCHOOL SIGN 0.10 5. SV FEISAL SEATED - IMMAM ELHADI EL MAHDI & SAYED ELGANOSI 0.14 6. CU SPEECH 0.16 7. CU FEISAL APPLAUSE 0.19 8. SV CAMERAMAN 0.20 9. CU FEISAL IS GIVEN COPY OF THE KORAN 0.28 10. CU FEISAL PRESENTED WITH SWORD 0.32 11. SV KING FEISAL WALKS ACROSS RUBUG (ABA ISLAND) AIRPORT WITH SAYED SADIG 0.39 12. LV TROOPS PRESENT ARMS 0.41 13. SV KING FEISAL AND OTHERS INSPECT TROOPS 0.50 14. SV BULL PAN TO CAR DEPARTING 0.57 15. SV PEOPLE IN TREE 1.00 16. TV KING FEISAL AND OTHERS WALK THROUGH CROWD 1.07 Initials RGM/VS/WH/EEH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th March 1966 13:00
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  • Location: GEZIRA ABA, SUDAN
  • Country: Sudan
  • Reuters ID: LVA4G6LECU2IOGLUF87MB6024TJB
  • Story Text: KING FEISAL OF SAUDI ARABIA, ON AN EIGHT-DAY STATE VISIT TO THE SUDAN, TOURED THE ISLAMIC SCHOOL, AND INSPECTED STUDENTS AT THE MILITARY COLLEGE, AT OMDURMAN, ON WEDNESDAY (9 MARCH). ON THURSDAY (10 MARCH), HE TRAVELLED TO ABA ISLAND, THE HISTORIC ISLAND IN THE BLUE NILE PROVINCE.

    THERE WERE CROWDS TO GREET THE KING ON HIS ARRIVAL AT THE ISLAMIC SCHOOL, WHERE HE WAS PRESENTED WITH A SWORD AND A COPY OF THE KORAN. THE KING WAS ACCOMPANIED BY IMMAM ELHADI EL MAHDI AND SAYED ELGANOSI, HEAD OF THE ISLAMIC PARTY,IN OMDURMAN.

    FLYING TO ABA ISLAND, KING FEISAL WAS WELCOMED BY IMMAM HADI EL MAHDI, RELIGIOUS LEADER OF THE ANSARI SECT, AND MEMBERS OF THE UMMA PARTY, LED BY SAYED EL SADIG, GRANDSON OF THE LEADER OF THE REVOLUTION AGAINST GENERAL GORDON.

    WHILE DRIVING THROUGH THE ISLAND THE SAUDI ARABIAN MONARCH SAW SOME 400 BULLS SLAUGHTERED IN HIS HONOUR.
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