Mogadishu
(Sunatimes) A Well organized ceremony attended by the high officials of the
transitional government of Somalia including the president, parliamentarians,
ambassadors of Yemen and Sudan to Somalia and commemorating the National Day of
Somalia 26 June, the 51 anniversary when Somalia took its independence from
British colony for the first time in north Somalia had taken place at Villa
Somalia in Mogadishu overnight.
National singers of Somalia had firstly opened the
occasion with the national songs as units of the national Somali army saluted
to the honorable guests and officials participating the ceremony.
Shortly after the national flag of Somalia raised
and started waving on air, al shabab militants launched several mortar shells
landed around the presidential palace where the occasion was taking place whole
night, but it is unclear what casualties caused so far.
The newly elected Prime Minster of Somalia Prof.
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali who addressed with the people had recounted how Somali
took its freedom mainly the 26 June indicating that more people lost their
lives expressing sorrowful for the none stop fighting going on in Somalia more
than 20 years.
President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed said that
elders and more people had thought more about the freedom of north Somalia and
lastly achieved pointing out that the current administration in the region
thought wrongly different from how the freedom reached.
Lastly Somali scholars invited at the ceremony had
talked more about the history of the 51st anniversary of 26th June, the first
time that Somalia took its independence from the British colony and urged all
the Somali people to be united and work the peace of Somalia.
By Mohamed
Abdi - Abdirizak
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Somali TFG Leaders Celebrate National Day 26th June
The newly elected Prime Minster of Somalia Prof. Abdiweli Mohamed Ali who addressed with the people had recounted how Somali took its freedom mainly the 26 June