{"id":236456,"date":"2026-06-16T05:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/east-africa-somalias-new-ambassador-presents-credentials-in-libya\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T05:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:11:51","slug":"east-africa-somalias-new-ambassador-presents-credentials-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/east-africa-somalias-new-ambassador-presents-credentials-in-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa: Somalia&#8217;s New Ambassador Presents Credentials in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Somalia&#8217;s newly appointed ambassador to Libya formally presented his credentials on Sunday to the head of Libya&#8217;s Presidential Council, marking the official start of his diplomatic mission and underscoring efforts by both countries to strengthen bilateral ties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Ambassador Abdifatah Sheikh Ahmed Abdulmannan handed over his letters of credence to Mohamed al-Menfi, chairman of Libya&#8217;s Presidential Council, during an official ceremony in Tripoli, according to Somali officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The presentation of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606150646.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia&#8217;s newly appointed ambassador to Libya formally presented his credentials on Sunday to the head of Libya&#8217;s Presidential Council, marking the official start of his diplomatic mission and underscoring efforts by both countries to strengthen bilateral ties. Ambassador Abdifatah Sheikh Ahmed Abdulmannan handed over his letters of credence to Mohamed al-Menfi, chairman of Libya&#8217;s Presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":236457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,6269,11389,6719,4711,892,257,6705,16830,254],"class_list":["post-236456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambassador","tag-credentials","tag-east","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-presents","tag-somalias","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}