{"id":432151,"date":"2024-11-06T05:01:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T02:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=432151"},"modified":"2024-11-06T05:01:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T02:01:26","slug":"finance-minister-us-ambassador-sign-1-14-debt-relief-agreement-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/finance-minister-us-ambassador-sign-1-14-debt-relief-agreement-in-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister, US Ambassador sign $1.14 debt relief agreement in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA)\u2014The Minister of Finance of the Federal Government of Somalia, H.E Bihi Iman Egeh, and the Ambassador of the United States to Somalia, Amb. Riley signed a bilateral agreement to relieve Somalia of its $1.14 billion debt to the US.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">This follows the successful debt relief process and the Paris Club agreement in March this year, which supported debt cancellation for <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">Somalia<\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">. &#8220;I thank the U.S. government and people for their unwavering support of our economic reforms and growth,&#8221; Minister Egeh said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This $1.1 billion in debt relief is in addition to the $1.2 billion of development, economic, security, and humanitarian assistance the United States has provided to Somalia just this fiscal year. The United States continues to be a steadfast partner in support of the Somali people.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-432152\" src=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3hW8AAOF_G-1024x790.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3hW8AAOF_G-1024x790.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3hW8AAOF_G-300x231.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3hW8AAOF_G-768x593.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3hW8AAOF_G-1536x1185.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3hW8AAOF_G-860x663.jpeg 860w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3hW8AAOF_G.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-432153\" src=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iX0AAWDOH-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iX0AAWDOH-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iX0AAWDOH-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iX0AAWDOH-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iX0AAWDOH-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iX0AAWDOH-330x220.jpeg 330w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iX0AAWDOH-420x280.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iX0AAWDOH-615x410.jpeg 615w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iX0AAWDOH-860x573.jpeg 860w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iX0AAWDOH.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-432154\" src=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iXcAEbIZ3-1024x890.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iXcAEbIZ3-1024x890.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iXcAEbIZ3-300x261.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iXcAEbIZ3-768x668.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iXcAEbIZ3-1536x1335.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iXcAEbIZ3-860x747.jpeg 860w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3iXcAEbIZ3.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-432155\" src=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3kWYAAg3xO-1024x849.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3kWYAAg3xO-1024x849.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3kWYAAg3xO-300x249.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3kWYAAg3xO-768x637.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3kWYAAg3xO-1536x1274.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3kWYAAg3xO-860x713.jpeg 860w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GbofE3kWYAAg3xO.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA)\u2014The Minister of Finance of the Federal Government of Somalia, H.E Bihi Iman Egeh, and the Ambassador of the United States to Somalia, Amb. Riley signed a bilateral agreement to relieve Somalia of its $1.14 billion debt to the US. This follows the successful debt relief process and the Paris Club agreement in March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":432152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-432151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432156,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432151\/revisions\/432156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}