Sheikh Shakhbout bin Nahyan, Minister of State, on Sunday acquired Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on the Abu Dhabi Presidential Airport.
Mr Mohamud is in Abu Dhabi on an official go to, information company Wam reported.
The go to to UAE comes after Sheikh Shakhbout attended the inauguration ceremony for Mr Mohamud as president of Somalia, which was held in Mogadishu on June 9.
Mr Mohamud turned president after members of the higher and decrease legislative chambers voted in secret balloting at Halane army camp, beneath the safety of African Union peacekeepers.
The primary spherical of voting in Could was contested by 36 candidates, 4 of whom proceeded to the second spherical.
With no candidate profitable at the least two thirds of the 328 ballots, voting then went to a 3rd spherical by which a easy majority was sufficient.
The presidential election was delayed for greater than a yr after the incumbent, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, sought to increase his rule by decree when his time period led to February 2021.
Mr Mohamud beforehand served as president between 2012 and 2017.
Up to date: June 19, 2022, 5:09 PM