Huge crowds welcome Somaliland President in Hargeisa

Thousands of jubilant crowds of Somalilanders welcome back their president, HE Muse Bihi Abdi, in Hargeisa, the capital city of Somaliland.

The president returned from a successful state to the Republic of Guinea (Conakry).

The president and his delegation received a Head of State Honor reception in Conakry and met the officials of the West Africa Republic.

Mr Behi, speaking to the media at Egal International Airport, revealed that many countries openly sided with the government of Mogadishu exerted a diplomatic pressure to downgrade the reception it accorded the Somaliland delegation he led which was on a state visit to the Western Africa nation on President Alpha Conde’s invitation.

“Italy was among nations that bore great pressure on Guinea heeding the hysteric calls of the Mogadishu administration. In fact, Italy exerted the greatest pressure but to no avail. President Conde’ repeated, even at arriving at the (AfCFTA), Niger, conference, yesterday, that Somaliland had every right to determine its destiny,” President Behi said.

President Behi underlined that the people who led the Mogadishu administration did what they did ignoring history in order to rekindle fresh instability in the region.

“These people are fully aware of what had been happening for the past 30 years, how Somaliland and Somalilanders suffered during that period and the abundantly recorded political history of Somaliland over the years,” he said.

“Somaliland is confident that its case is better understood by an increasing number of friendly nations in the world, and within the AU, and that it is not a matter that Mogadishu can dispense with as it pleased. None should be afraid for Somaliland. It is a reality that none can ignore anymore,” the president concluded