Issoufou Mahamadou, the president of the Republic of Niger has written to the Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, felicitating him on theMuslim Holy month of Ramadan.

Sheikh Hamad Khalifa Al Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar and Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassem Bin Jabr Al Thani, the prime minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar, also congratulated President Jammeh on the recent Eid Al-Mubarak commonly known as Koriteh.

The messages read:

On the auspicious occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan, I have great honour and pleasure to extend my heartfelt best wishes of good health and happiness to Your Excellency and the First Family as well as prosperity, peace and progress of your country.

May Allah (SWT) accepts our prayers and our benevolence in this blessed month which our peoples in particular and the Islamic Ummah in general, celebrate the essential values of Islam, our dear religion. Please accept Mr President and Dear Brother, the assurances of my highest consideration and esteem.

Issoufou Mahamadou

President of Niger

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It gives me pleasure, on the occasion of Eid El-Fitr al Mubarak, to extend to you, on behalf of the people of the State of Qatar and my own behalf, our warm greetings and felicitations, coupled with our best wishes for your personal well-being and further prosperity and progress of your sisterly country. With my highest consideration.

Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani

Amir of the State of Qatar

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It pleases me on the advent of Eid El-Fitr al-Mubarak to extend to you and your brotherly people my best greetings and felicitations coupled with my sincere wishes for your personal well-being and further prosperity and progress of your sisterly country. With my highest consideration.

Hamad Bin Jassem Bin Jabr Al-Thani

Prime minister and Minister of

Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar