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Somaliland Welcomes Trump’s “Totally Different Country” Remark: “No External Position Will Change the Democratic Will of Our People”

Foreign Minister Abdirahman Dahir Adam said the president’s words at an Ohio rally reflected Somaliland’s separate political status, a day after Trump said the breakaway region should “change the name immediately.”

Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi
Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi “Irro,” President of Somaliland. (File photo)Berbera Today / Wikimedia Commons

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