{"id":1743,"date":"2023-12-20T20:20:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T17:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballsomalia.so\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2024-04-20T12:59:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T09:59:56","slug":"somalia-lost-key-minister-the-woman-who-restored-stadium-mogadishu-into-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballsomalia.so\/en\/somalia-lost-key-minister-the-woman-who-restored-stadium-mogadishu-into-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia lost key minister, The woman who restored Stadium Mogadishu into use."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\" data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">Somalia has lost a key minister, the woman who did everything to get the country\u2019s national football facility Stadium Mogadishu back into use. Mrs. khadija Mohamed Diriye, who was the current minister for humanitarian affairs, but previously served as the country\u2019s minister for youth and sport, unexpectedly died in Djibouti this afternoon.<\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\"><\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">According to government sources, the minister felt unwell and was rushed to hospital in Djibouti where she perished. She was attending a conference in the neighboring country.<\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">Khadija Mohamed Diriye, served as the minister for youth and sport in 2010 and then from 2017 to 2021. During her second term as the minister, the late Diriye did everything to get Stadium Mogadishu back into the hands of Somali football federation after years of military and militant occupation.<\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">After a prolonged struggle and efforts, the late Diriye, realized her dream of getting Stadium Mogadishu back into use in July 2020 attracting the attention of Somali youths who recognized her as the minsiter of the decade. She was termed as \u2018the best\u2019 and the most active minister of sport Somalia ever had.<\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\"><\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">The president of Somali football federation, Mr. Ali Abdi Mohamed, said that with minister Diriye\u2019s death Somalia has missed a great sports personality.<\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\u201cIt is with sadness to hear of the bad news of Mrs Diriye\u2019s death. We will be missing a woman who lent a forceful commitment to our sport, a woman who was the closest friend of Somali football Federation. She was a key member of the Somali football family\u201d SFF president, Ali Abdi Mohamed said.<\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\u201cI would like to send my sympathy to her children, relatives and to the entire Somali football family\u201d president Ali Abdi Mohamed, added. The book of condolence has been opened at the headquarters of Somali football federation where many have signed so far.<\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\"><\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1744\" src=\"https:\/\/footballsomalia.so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_0681-300x192.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Somali Football media department\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\"><strong>email:media@footballsomalia.so<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia has lost a key minister, the woman who did everything to get the country\u2019s national football facility Stadium Mogadishu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballsomalia.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballsomalia.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballsomalia.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballsomalia.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballsomalia.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballsomalia.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballsomalia.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballsomalia.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballsomalia.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballsomalia.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}