Jama M. Haji Egal, Somaliland’s Minister of Energy and Minerals, has traveled to Dubai for an international conference.
Egal traveled for the conference with Ahmed Adan, the Director of Petroleum in the ministry.
They left Somaliland on Thursday, November 19 for the conference, which Iraq-Britain Business Council (IBBC) has organized.
Emma Nicholson, known officially as Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, a Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, invited Egal and Adan in her capacity as the President of IBBC.
Nicholson is also the Prime Minister’s Trade Ambassador to Iraq, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan.
Egal confirmed his visit to Dubai was to meet with representatives of oil companies in the region.
He hopes to convince them of the attractiveness of Somaliland as a country with massive investment opportunities in the oil and energy sector.