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List Of Somalilanders
This is a list of notable Somalilanders from Somaliland, as well as the Somaliland diaspora. Athletes * Mo Farah - British-Somalilander long-distance runner * Bashir Abdi - Belgian-Somalilander long-distance runner * Mohammed Ahmed - Somali-Canadian long-distance runner *Liban Abdi - Somalilander-Norwegian footballer * Mohammed Ahamed - Somalilander-Norwegian footballer Authors *Hadrawi - songwriter and philosopher * Nadifa Mohamed - Somali-British novelist Entrepreneurs * Abdirashid Duale - CEO and founder of Dahabshiil * Ismail Ahmed - Executive Chairman and founder of WorldRemit Journalists * Rageh Omaar - Somalilander-British television news presenter *Ahmed Said Egeh Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ... - former BBC Somali correspondent of Hargeisa Milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somalilanders
Somaliland,; ar, صوماليلاند ', ' officially the Republic of Somaliland,, ar, جمهورية صوماليلاند, link=no ''Jumhūrīyat Ṣūmālīlānd'' is a '' de facto'' sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, still considered internationally to be part of Somalia. Somaliland lies in the Horn of Africa, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden. It is bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, Ethiopia to the south and west, and Somalia to the east.Encyclopædia Britannica, ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica'', (Encyclopædia Britannica: 2002), p.835 Its claimed territory has an area of , with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government of Somaliland regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which, as the briefly independent State of Somaliland, united in 1960 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic.''The New Ency ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |