In a small restaurant adorned with Welsh and Somaliland flags, traditional dishes – lentil soups, meat and rice, stews and chopped salads – are brought out in quick succession.<\/p>\n
“This is the best part of the day, literally!” says Mr Abdi.<\/p>\n
“Nice and hot spicy food. Somali Bariis and Hilib, can’t go wrong.”<\/p>\n
Also enjoying the meal is Munirah. <\/p>\n
“I think it was a good way to close the event today, everyone enjoys having a nice meal \u2013 even better that it’s Somali traditional food,” she says.<\/p>\n
Munirah, inspired by today’s event, says: “In the near future I would like to see if I can be the one that makes a change in my own country.”<\/p>\n
The UK government’s position is that Somaliland’s status needs to be resolved in the local region. <\/p>\n
A Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson said: “The UK believes that the settlement of Somaliland’s status is an issue for Mogadishu and Hargeisa to decide through a consultative process and dialogue, in which we encourage both parties to engage. <\/p>\n
“Alongside others in the international community, we do not recognise Somaliland’s unilateral declaration of independence.<\/p>\n
“The UK is a leading partner of Somaliland, supporting its stability and promoting economic, human and social development. For a decade the UK has been the only Western country with a permanent diplomatic presence in Hargeisa.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a small restaurant adorned with Welsh and Somaliland flags, traditional dishes – lentil soups, meat and rice,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-273118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114876517332113513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}