{"id":461397,"date":"2026-06-10T12:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=461397"},"modified":"2026-06-10T12:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:07:49","slug":"africas-best-referee-omar-abdulkadir-artan-receives-warm-welcome-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/africas-best-referee-omar-abdulkadir-artan-receives-warm-welcome-in-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s Best Referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan Receives Warm Welcome in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 International referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan arrived at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu a short while ago, where he was warmly received by representatives of the government officials, Somali Football Federation, fellow Somali referees, members of civil society, and a large crowd of supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Artan was named Africa\u2019s Best Referee of 2025, a distinction that elevated Somalia\u2019s profile on the continental and global football stage. His absence from the FIFA World Cup is widely regarded as a major loss both for him personally and for Somali football as a whole. However, he has received an overwhelming outpouring of support and solidarity from across the world in recent days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 International referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan arrived at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu a short while ago, where he was warmly received by representatives of the government officials, Somali Football Federation, fellow Somali referees, members of civil society, and a large crowd of supporters. Artan was named Africa\u2019s Best Referee of 2025, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":461398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461397","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=461397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461399,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461397\/revisions\/461399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}