Voice of the Arabs

Cairo radios Somali program congratulated the Somali people on their independence and union and played the song “Victory” on behalf of the Somali students in Egypt as an expression of their rejoicing on the occasion. It rebroadcast the talk on the UAR’s support for the Somalis, previously broadcast in Somali and Arabic.

The “Voice of Palestine” of the “Voice of the Arabs” (30.6.60) conveyed the Palestine peoplets greeting to the Somalis, the latest of the African people to achieve liberation from the same imperialism which the Arabs knew. It noted that Arab-Somali relations had never been broken and that the Somalis had severed relations with Israel.