"Senegal accords Somaliland Presidential delegation state reception."
HARGEISA, JAN 12, 2003 (REPUBLICAN)--A motorcade befitting a visiting state delegation escorted the Somaliland delegation from the airport to the official state visitors’ palatial quarters, where about an hour and 30 minutes later HE Abdoulaye Wade, himself, came to personally welcome it. The two Presidents briefly went into a preliminary meeting, which lasted for about 40 minutes, the statement said. The Journey, Mr Idiris wrote, took about 30 on-flight hours with only brief stopover in Addis Ababa of Ethiopia and Frankfurt in between.