Somalia: A UK Fact-Finding Mission in Somaliland

A press statement issued by the Somaliland President's Office on Monday (October 20) said Somaliland Vice President, Abdirahman Abddullahi Ismail "Saylici" and other ministers had met with a UK fact finding mission, headed by Lynne Featherstone, UK Parliamentary Under Secretary for International Development.

The delegation included Neil Wigan, UK Ambassador for Somalia, Rachel Turner, the Head of Central and Eastern Africa, and other DFID and Foreign Office officials. Discussions covered the Somaliland-UK Investment Forum held last week in London, and the Somaliland Development Fund which the Minister of National Planning and Development, Dr Saad Ali Shire, described as "the vehicle to meet all the Partnership Principles set out in the Somaliland Special Arrangement."

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