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Over 1000 camels to compete in Egypt’s Alamein Race

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2 years ago

August 22, 2022

More than 1000 camels have been registered to compete in the annual Alamein Camel Race scheduled to hold in the El Alamein province of Egypt on Tuesday.

The camel race see around a thousand camel owners from all governorates of Egypt taking part in the event where the camels will compete in 32 rounds, in two morning and evening periods.

The head of the Competitions Committee in the Egyptian Federation, Sheikh Salama Abu El-Nada, and one of the senior camel owners, said in a statement that all the “camels are in a state of readiness to start the races as more than a thousand camel owners from different Egyptian tribes from all governorates of Egypt attended the camel racing track in El Alamein Square to participate in the race.”

He added that the 900 camels that will participate in the races have been registered to compete for the first places and get prizes offered by the UAE Camel Federation.

Eid Hamdan, head of the Egyptian Camel Racing Fedeqnnounced that it was decided to start the camel racing activities on Tuesday under the auspices and support of the UAE Camel Racing Federation.

“This year’s race is the strongest of its kind, as 900 camels from all governorates of Egypt will participate in the competition for the first runs, and is scheduled to be distributed over 32 rounds in two morning shifts, in which 20 runs and evening runs, and 12 races will start,” he said.

He added that the El Alamein camel field is one of the most important camel racing fields in Egypt, and the distance of the race track is 5 kilometers with equipped gates, and new construction has been added to it, including tracks, roads, a main cabin, viewing platform and service areas.

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Egypt reclaims 3,400-year-old stolen statue of King Ramses II

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8 hours ago

April 23, 2024

Akanimoh Etim

Egypt has received a 3,400-year-old statue depicting the head of King Ramses II that was stolen and smuggled out of the country more than three millennia a ago, the country’s Antiquities Ministry said in a statement.

According to the Ministry, the statue was stolen from the Ramses II temple in the ancient city of Abydos in Southern Egypt more than three decades ago.

Head of Egypt’s Antiquities Repatriation Department, Shaaban Abdel Gawad, who received the artefact said though the exact date the artefact was stolen is not known, the piece is estimated to have been stolen in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

“The statue is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo but not on display. The artefact will be restored,” he said.

He stated that Egyptian authorities spotted the artefact when it was offered for sale in an exhibition in London in 2013 before it was moved to several other countries before reaching Switzerland.

“This head is part of a group of statues depicting King Ramses II seated alongside a number of Egyptian deities,” Abdel Gawad said.

King Ramses II is one of ancient Egypt’s most powerful Pharaohs. Also known as Ramses the Great, he was the third pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty of Egypt and ruled from 1279 to 1213 BC.

“Egypt collaborated with Swiss authorities to establish its rightful ownership and Switzerland handed over the statue to the Egyptian embassy in Bern last year, but it was only recently that Egypt brought the artefact home, he added.

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Ghana mourns as top gospel music icon Koda passes away

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1 day ago

April 22, 2024

Akanimoh Etim

The Ghanaian entertainment industry has, once again, been thrown into mourning following the death of renowned gospel musician, Kofi Owusu Dua Anto, known professionally as Koda, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 46.

According to reports, the gospel music icon and producer died from a kidney-related condition he had been suffering from for sometime.

Koda, renowned for hit songs like “Hossana”, “Nkwaa Abodo”, “Nsem Pii” and “Adooso”, was also a producer of repute who gained fame for his inspiring compositions and his captivating, soul-stirring vocals that struck a chord with audiences nationwide.

A local media reports that he worked with a lot of Gospel musicians in Ghana and Nigeria including popular Nigerian gospel singer, Nathaniel Bassey.