His Highness the Father Emir carried out a walking exercise in the front yard of Emiri Diwan. He also witnessed a show of camels and pure Arabian horses.

Hundreds of camels have died of starvation and thirst after being driven out of Saudi Arabia during its current rift with Qatar.

Thousands of camels continued to cross Saudi Arabia’s desert border into Qatar yesterday and were reunited with their owners after being stranded for days at a frontier shut because of the ongoing diplomatic crisis, Reuters reports.

The Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) has allocated temporary plots of land for more than 7,000 camels and 5,000 goats and sheep brought back from Saudi Arabia.

Widam Food Company has opened a new abattoir for slaughtering camels, which is considered the first of its type in the country. It is located at the Central Market inside the automated slaughterhouse.

With both Camels teams now named for tonight’s clash, there will be no love lost between the players on the field as they gear up for the most awaited derby labelled “mate against mate”.