{"id":11418,"date":"2022-03-15T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/?p=11418"},"modified":"2022-03-15T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T06:00:06","slug":"in-washington-somalilands-leader-makes-a-case-for-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/in-washington-somalilands-leader-makes-a-case-for-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"In Washington, Somaliland&#8217;s leader makes a case for independence."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Moagadishu Somalia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The leader of Somaliland, Somalia&#8217;s semi-autonomous area, has urged the international world to accept his territory&#8217;s independence bid, claiming that talks with Somalia had failed.<\/p>\n<p>Muse Bihi Abdi claimed that &#8220;Somalia has showed a complete lack of interest in genuine engagement&#8221; during the course of a decade of negotiations, prompting Somaliland to press ahead with its desire for international recognition as an independent country.<\/p>\n<p>He remarked on Monday in Washington at an event organized by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy think organization, that &#8220;dialogue has failed to achieve its aims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Heritage Foundation&#8217;s president, Kevin Roberts, believes the &#8220;US and Somaliland should be great allies.&#8221; In a region plagued by conflict and the danger of extremists, Somaliland provides the United States with a comparatively peaceful environment.<\/p>\n<p>*Writing by Ahmed Wacane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moagadishu Somalia The leader of Somaliland, Somalia&#8217;s semi-autonomous area, has urged the international world to accept his territory&#8217;s independence bid, claiming that talks with Somalia had failed. Muse Bihi Abdi claimed that &#8220;Somalia has showed a complete lack of interest in genuine engagement&#8221; during the course of a decade of negotiations, prompting Somaliland to press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":11419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wararka-gudaha"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}