Somaliland Officials Invited To Harar’s Millennium Anniversary Celebrations

Hargeysa, 21 July, 2007 (SL Times) – A large delegation of Somaliland’s ministerial and regional heads travelled to the Ethiopian federal state city of Harar on Monday to officially take part in the one thousand year anniversary of the city’s construction.

The city of Harar was founded in the year 428 in the Hijra calendar (1007 AD), and is the present day capital city of the Ethiopian federal state of Hererge.

Harar, was one time the seat of the Adal Islamic empire which ruled an empire stretching from north of Gondar to the Arabian plateau and for centuries had been the fountain of Islamic learning in East and central Africa.

The Somaliland delegation which set off from the Somaliland border town of Wajale, was composed of the Minister of the Presidency, Mr Noor A Ismail, the Minister of Finance, Mr Hussien A Duale, the Minister of Parliamentary Relations, Mr Abdi H Buni, the governor of Hargeysa, Mr Ali H Muhammud (Ali Asad) and the governor of Awdal region, Mr Muhammud A. Ege.

Source: Somaliland Times

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