- On one day in March dozens of people gathered in a hospital in
Hargeisa, Somaliland. The bright room was decorated with flowers and
banners in red, green and white, the colours of Somaliland’s flag.
Doctors –foreign and Somali – ministers, medical students, former
patients and journalists filed in, greeting each other, standing in
little groups and talking animatedly. A man walked to the front, bowed
his head, and intoned a prayer over the crackly microphone, and the
murmur turned to silence as people took to their seat. Minutes later, a woman dressed in an elegant blue gown took to the
podium. Edna Adan, the face of Somaliland’s healthcare and founder of
the hospital where this event took place, is in her 80s, but the passion
in her voice and her strong demeanour make her seem decades younger.
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