{"id":156561,"date":"2025-09-20T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156561\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:26:09","slug":"president-mohamud-honors-somali-boxing-champion-ramla-ali-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156561\/","title":{"rendered":"President Mohamud honors Somali Boxing Champion Ramla Ali in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HOL.jpg\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" \/><br \/>Saturday September 20, 2025<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"imageuploader1_Image1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025920638939511636544045.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mogadishu (HOL) \u2013 Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on&#13;<br \/>\nSaturday welcomed Somali boxing champion and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Ramla&#13;<br \/>\nAli at the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The President praised Ali, who represents Somalia in&#13;<br \/>\ninternational competitions, describing her as a symbol of encouragement and&#13;<br \/>\nunity for the nation. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nHe presented her with an honorary certificate in recognition&#13;<br \/>\nof her achievements, her role in uplifting Somali sports, and the positive&#13;<br \/>\nreputation she has earned for the country.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ali, Somalia\u2019s first Olympic boxer, commended the President&#13;<br \/>\nfor the progress made during his second term and said she had witnessed&#13;<br \/>\npositive change in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the 35-year-old featherweight received a hero\u2019s&#13;<br \/>\nwelcome at Aden Adde International Airport, where federal officials, community&#13;<br \/>\nleaders, and flag-waving fans gathered to greet her. Ali, who has a&#13;<br \/>\nprofessional record of 10 wins and two losses since turning pro in 2020, made&#13;<br \/>\nhistory at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as Somalia\u2019s first-ever Olympic boxer.<\/p>\n<p>Ali was born in Mogadishu on Sept. 16, 1989, before her&#13;<br \/>\nfamily fled the civil war after her 12-year-old brother was killed by a mortar.&#13;<br \/>\nThey passed through Kenya before resettling in London, where Ali discovered&#13;<br \/>\nboxing as a teenager . Initially training in secret, she won England\u2019s national&#13;<br \/>\nnovice title in 2015, followed by the elite national championships in 2016 and&#13;<br \/>\nthe African Zone featherweight title in 2019 .<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday September 20, 2025 \u00a0 Mogadishu (HOL) \u2013 Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on&#13; Saturday welcomed Somali boxing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[26645,64,63,802,8813,104398,104397,104394,4717,38569,104393,445,40167,104392,104396,104395,104399,38568,104400,85],"class_list":["post-156561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-ali","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-champion","tag-hiiraan","tag-hiiraan-online","tag-honors","tag-in","tag-mogadishu","tag-mohamud","tag-online","tag-president","tag-president-mohamud-honors-somali-boxing-champion-ramla-ali-in-mogadishu","tag-ramla","tag-somali","tag-somali-news","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}