Somaliland-UNICEF Representative meets with Vice President

[Deeq A.]

By: Amira Mustafe

HARGEISA– The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) representative to Somalia Mr Steven Lauwerier is visiting Somaliland. Mr Lauwerier met on Tuesday Somaliland’s Vice President, Abdirahman Abdilahi Ismail aka Sayli’i and discussed the speeding up of Joint Programme on Local Governance in Somaliland.

Mr. Steven and Sayli’i talked about the drought that is hard hitting in rural areas in Somaliland. The two sides have also discussed health and nutrition maternity project which Unicef is about to implement in the country. Mr. Steven has commended Somaliland’s strides that it took in the right direction in terms of progress.