Somalilanders Celebrate in Saudi Arabia

[Jacaylbaro]

Somalilanders here in Saudi Arabia marked their national day on May 18 with festivities lined up the whole day, which was highlighted by nationalistic speeches, songs, dancing, and lectures on the country’s history and struggle towards independence. In the Eastern Province, the center of celebrations was in Dhahran.

 

The event – the declaration of the birth of the Republic of Somaliland on 18 May, 1991– is celebrated annually all over the world by the people of Somaliland in every country where they have settled since the partition of Africa into five separate countries – the British Somaliland, the Italian Somaliland (which is still in conflict), the French Somaliland (now Djibouti), ******ia under Ethiopia, and Kenya Somaliland, referred to as the Northern Frontier District (NFD). The present-day Republic of Somaliland was the British Somaliland.

 

The coup d’etat in 1969, led by the Mohamed Siad Barre, further forced many Somalilanders to leave their country. Most Somalilanders have found new life and opportunities in capitals of the world like Washington, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Oslo, Stockholm, and within the Gulf States. But they have never forgotten to remember May 18 as the day they declared the birth of their country.

 

 

 

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[Xaaji Xunjuf]

SNM was founded in Jedda saudi arabia By Somalilanders there, the somalilanders in saudi arabia are great patriots and indeed well done to the Somalilanders in saudi arabia.