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(Prnewswire)The Aga Khan, who is accompanied on this visit to Portugal by his wife, the Begum Aga Khan, was yesterday invested with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit by President Jorge Sampaio for his 'outstanding contribution to human understanding and to social and economic progress in different areas of the world.'

July 1998 issues of Point de Vue (french) and Hola (spanish) had More Photos of the Portugal Visit.

According to Itar-Tass and news from Dushanbe, The Aga Khan will visit Tajikistan from September 21st to September 28th 1998.

The spiritual leader of the world's Ismaili community, the Aga Khan, is visiting Tajikistan, home to a small but influential Ismaili community living mainly in the south of the country

According to Itar-Tass 'The spiritual leader of the world Ishmaelites, Prince Aga Khan IV, who is paying a week- long visit to Tajikistan at the invitation of President emomali Rakhmonov, on Thursday left for the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region where the most populous diaspora of Ishmaelites resides.'

According to BBC World Service, the leader of the world's Ismaili community, the Aga Khan, has been welcomed by thousands of his followers at the start of a visit to the Pamir mountains of eastern Tajikistan. On his arrival at the region's only airport, the Aga Khan was given the traditional welcome -- he was offered salt and bread.

Visit East African Institutions with Prince Rahim, Princess Zahra and Marc Boyden. After Nairobi (Diamond Jubilee Trust) and Kampala (IPS), visits the Serena Serengeti. Meets the Zanzibar Jamat on Sunday August 24 at the historical Zanzibar Jamatkhana.

Private visit to development projects in Western Africa starting by Abidjan in Ivory Coast, accompanied by Prince Rahim, Princess Zahra and Marc Boyden. The visit lead them to visit projects in Bouake (300 km from Abidjan), plantations in Yamassoukro and visit to Burkhina Faso. They left for Senegal on Sunday 16th. (More on the projects: see under 11-12 Nov). Vanity Fair writes 'He is a horse breeder, newspaper proprietor, yatchsman, developer, financier, and a philanthropist of unparallel scope'.

His Highness the Aga Khan left for Tanzania after a four-day official visit to Kenya.

His Highness the Aga Khan arrives in Tanzania on March 13 for a three-day visit. At the end of his Dar-es-Salaam visit, His Highness is expected to inaugurate the recently built Serena Inn in Zanzibar on March 15.

The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Moslems, opened a $7 million hotel on the island of Zanzibar. Reuters also reported that The Aga Khan, concluding an East African tour which has already taken him to Uganda, Kenya and mainland Tanzania, also visited historic buildings in Zanzibar's Stone Town which are being renovated by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.

East Africa Gallery- This is the place where you can find all of the others press clippings, many speeches of the visits (by H.H. The Aga Khan, Prince Amyn, President Moi etc... And not to mention almost 50 beautiful photographs of the visit. One of the best Gallery we ever had!

Hazar Imam visited Hunza in early October and gave Holy Deedar at Alyabad, Gilgit and Karimabad. At Karimabad, Hazar Imam opened the restored Baltit Fort.