Somali President Sharif Sheik Ahmed to visit Washington

NAIROBI (TF.SF)—Somalia’s president Sharif Sheik Ahmed is scheduled to officially visit Washington, United States after he got invitation from the US Congress, sources said on Tuesday. Sources close to office of the president say Senator Donald Payne sent invitation to President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed. US Congressman Donald Payne visited in Mogadishu and met President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed and Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke on 13 April 2009. High ranking government officials said the president and the foreign minister will visit Washington in this month and will address to American Congress.
This will be the first time that a Somali president gets invitation from the United States since the .Collapse of the somalii central government in 1991. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had met president Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed in Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday and said president Sharif was the best hope of Somalia who could restore peace and stability in the war torn nation.Conservative Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre was the last somali Heads of State and Government--1982 come to Official working visitThe United States of America.and Private visit afterward to Houston, Chicago, and New York City.http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/15748.htm