Riyadh-based world assembly of Muslim youth (WAMY) has extended scholarships to 725 students from various nationalities to enable them complete their studies and obtain master and doctorate degrees. These scholarships will be at a cost of sr3, 807,763. This was announced by Khalid al-Ahmadi, the director of the administration of educational affairs at WAMY. He noted that students from Burkina Faso, Somalia, Bangladesh, Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Tunisia, Burundi, Togo, Nigeria, Mauritania, Chad, Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, the Philippines, Ghana, Senegal, Djibouti and Thailand will benefit from the scholarships. The students who are on scholarships will obtain their studies in a number of universities including Imam Mohammed bin Saud Islamic university, King Saud university, the Holy Quran university, Omdurman Islamic university, Khartoum university, al-Azhari university, A'ali al-Bihar university, al-Nilein university, Africa international university, Juba university, Khartoum institute, the institute of researches and studies of the Muslim world, al-Jazeera university, and Egypt university for sciences and technology. Dr al-Ahamdi said the number of the students who will benefit from the partial scholarships amounts to 308. They include students from 47 countries including Ethiopia, Eritrea, Senegal, China, Niger, India, Indonesia, Tunisia, Iraq, the Philippines, Kerkizia, Kenya, Egypt, Nepal, Jordan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Chad, Tanzania, Gambia, Ghana, Palestine, Cambodia, Liberia, Mauritania, Nigeria, Algeria, Djibouti, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, Srilanka, Sudan, Syria, Sierra Leone Somalia, Tajikistan, Guinea Bissau, Comoros, Mali and Yemen.
