Hargeisa (SD) – Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi attended an online ceremony celebrating 13 young Somaliland graduates from universities across the world including the United States.

These graduates attended Somaliland’s premier tech school Abarso, located in the outskirts of Hargeisa, Somaliland.

“I congratulate the young people who are graduating today from the tens of universities across the United States who have also persevered.” Said the president.

The president said since the country’s independence from Britain 60 year ago, this is the first opportunity for Somaliland students to get an opportunity to gratitude from universities.

The president thanked all who helped and above all, the Abarso School officials who helped send these students to multiple universities around the world.

Since Abaarso Tech opened in Somaliland in 2009, about 150 Abaarso students who graduated have all received foreign scholarships.

Currently there are 275 students in Grade 7 to Grade 12.

This year’s ceremony involved the single highest number of graduates ever to graduate from international universities.

Here is the list of Graduated Students;

1- Abdikarim Yasin Hussein – Swarthmore College

2-Abdirahim Ahmed Mohamed – Brown University

3-Abdirahman Ahmed Yusuf – Grinnell College

4-Abokor Abdi Ismael –TCU

5-Maria   Oman Ahmed – Lafayette College

6-Sahra Aw Ciise Jamaac – Brandeis University

7-Youssouf Mohammed Nour – Westminster College

8-Samira Abdilahi Ahmed – Wheaton College

9-Jamal Aw Yoonis – Berea College

10-Nadira Yousuf Abdilahi – Yale University

11-Abdisamad Aden – Harvard University

12-Hamze Mahdi Hassan – Harvard University

13-Warsan Yusuf – Luther College