Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Sheikh of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, received, on Saturday in Al-Azhar Sheikhdom, a Somali delegation headed by Minister Omar Ali Robley, Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs of the Federal Republic of Somalia, accompanied by Ambassador Elias Sheikh Omar Abu Bakr, the Somali ambassador in Cairo, and a number of Somali officials.
The Grand Imam said that Al-Azhar receives 873 male and female students from the State of Somalia this year, and there are 22 envoys from Al-Azhar in Somalia, and the Al-Azhar mission there is one of the oldest Arab missions, in addition to the presence of an Azhari institute and a branch of the World Organization for Al-Azhar Graduates, and this confirms the appreciation and interest of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif advancing education on the African continent,