Al-Azhar keen to promote cooperation with African countries, the Grand Imam to Ethiopian Ambassador
Al-Azhar Grand Imam, Prof. Ahmad At-Tayyeb, received Ambassador Dina Mufti, Ambassador of Ethiopia to Egypt.
The Grand Imam said that Al-Azhar Ash-Sharif is keen on promoting cooperation with the various countries of the African continent to support them in confronting extremist ideas. He stressed Al-Azhar’s readiness to support Ethiopia in the fields of science and missionary to protect its youth from being attracted to terrorist organizations.
The Ethiopian Ambassador, for his part, said that Ethiopia has a strong historical relationship with Islam and the Muslims, with roots stretching hundreds of years back, when it received the first Muslim migrants, stressing his country's keenness to benefit from Al-Azhar's scientific and missionary efforts for the sake of the Muslims of Ethiopia.