{"id":451930,"date":"2025-11-18T21:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=451930"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:03:28","slug":"speaker-of-the-lower-house-meets-his-kenyan-counterpart-in-nairobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/speaker-of-the-lower-house-meets-his-kenyan-counterpart-in-nairobi\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker of the Lower House Meets His Kenyan Counterpart in Nairobi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2014 The Speaker of the House of the People of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Hon. Sheikh Aden Mohamed Noor (Madoobe), who is currently in Nairobi, held a meeting with his Kenyan counterpart, Moses M. Wetang\u2019ula.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Wetang\u2019ula congratulated Sheikh Aden Madoobe on his leadership role as Chairperson of the East African Community Parliamentary Speakers\u2019 Forum, Somalia\u2019s successful election of its representatives to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), and the country\u2019s growing, active contribution within the regional bloc.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Madoobe conveyed condolences on behalf of Somalia over the passing of former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga. He also extended an invitation to Kenya\u2019s Speaker to attend the East African Community Speakers\u2019 Summit set to be hosted by Somalia in May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting further discussed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Establishing a parliamentary friendship committee between the two nations<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing experience-sharing programs between members of both parliaments<\/li>\n<li>Strengthening overall cooperation and coordination between the legislative bodies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The session was also attended by the Secretary-General of Somalia\u2019s House of the People, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdulle (Jaabiri), Somalia\u2019s Ambassador to Kenya, Jibril Ibrahim Abdulle, and the Director-General of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Yusuf Hassan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-451932\" src=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c095bf25-dfd9-4840-94aa-682a797c4caf-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" 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Sheikh Aden Mohamed Noor (Madoobe), who is currently in Nairobi, held a meeting with his Kenyan counterpart, Moses M. Wetang\u2019ula. Speaker Wetang\u2019ula congratulated Sheikh Aden Madoobe on his leadership role as Chairperson of the East African Community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":451934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-451930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451937,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451930\/revisions\/451937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}