MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo will today travel to Doha to meet with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, Qatar’s national news agency is reporting.
According to QNA, the two leaders will meet on Sunday to discuss bilateral relations and “issues of common interest” at the Presidential Palace.
His trip comes as the country is on election mode fill over 300 parliamentary seats.
Country was to conclude its parliamentary and presidential elections last year but postponed following political crisis.
The relations between the countries has been building up for past decade.
In 2019, Qatar Fund for Development started to implement a range of development projects in Somalia.
The Gulf State donated a fleet of 68 armoured vehicles last year and airlifted victims of an Al-Shabab terrorist attack from Mogadishu to Doha for emergency medical treatment last month.
Qatar has also started to build a new seaport at Hobyo on the Red Sea coast, a potentially strategic investment in an area of East Africa contested fiercely by Gulf rivals.
Qatar Fund for Development explained that these projects are part of the ongoing efforts of the government in Doha to empower developing countries and bring stability and prosperity.
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