Somaliland: President congratulates USA on 244th Independence Day celebrations

By M.A. Egge

The President H.E. Musa Bihi Abdi has sent National Independence congratulatory message to the people and the government of the USA on the occasion of their 244^th Independency anniversary, a day popularly known as July 4^th in the US.

They got their Independence on the 4^th July 1776.

The President noted in his congratulatory note that a former Massachusetts governor, who later became the US state secretary hailed Somaliland on the occasion of its 26^th June 1960 Independence Day, hence underscored the fact that both countries had the same colonial masters, and by thus, shared a history.

The message noted that the nation of Somaliland always acknowledged those with whom it shared a past hence in the same breath hail the great US country on this auspicious special occasion.