{"id":459253,"date":"2026-04-20T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=459253"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:03:34","slug":"somalias-ambassador-meets-sri-lankan-president-to-strengthen-bilateral-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somalias-ambassador-meets-sri-lankan-president-to-strengthen-bilateral-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia\u2019s Ambassador Meets Sri Lankan President to Strengthen Bilateral Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo (SONNA): The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Somalia to India, H.E. Dr. Abdullahi Mohamed Odowa, held a meeting in Colombo with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting welcomed the restoration of direct relations between the two countries and reaffirmed the commitment to strengthening bilateral cooperation between Somalia and Sri Lanka. Discussions particularly focused on opportunities for collaboration in education, trade, and the exchange of knowledge and expertise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-560995\" src=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/86ea526a-3c80-41ca-a08b-91426d06d899-300x128.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/86ea526a-3c80-41ca-a08b-91426d06d899-300x128.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/86ea526a-3c80-41ca-a08b-91426d06d899-1024x437.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/86ea526a-3c80-41ca-a08b-91426d06d899-768x328.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/86ea526a-3c80-41ca-a08b-91426d06d899-1536x656.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/86ea526a-3c80-41ca-a08b-91426d06d899-2048x874.jpeg 2048w, 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Dr. Abdullahi Mohamed Odowa, held a meeting in Colombo with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The meeting welcomed the restoration of direct relations between the two countries and reaffirmed the commitment to strengthening bilateral cooperation between Somalia and Sri Lanka. Discussions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":459254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-459253","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\/459253","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=459253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459255,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459253\/revisions\/459255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}