{"id":441860,"date":"2025-05-22T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=441860"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T05:42:00","slug":"somali-finance-minister-holds-productive-meeting-with-opec-fund-in-algiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somali-finance-minister-holds-productive-meeting-with-opec-fund-in-algiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali Finance Minister Holds Productive Meeting with OPEC Fund in Algiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-sourcepos=\"3:1-3:363\"><strong>Algiers, Algeria<\/strong> \u2013 The Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mr. Bihi Imaan Ige, held a productive meeting with the President of the OPEC Fund for International Development, Mr. Abdulhamid Al-Khalifa, and other fund officials. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the annual gathering of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) in Algiers.<\/p>\n<p data-sourcepos=\"5:1-5:212\">Minister Ige was accompanied by Somalia&#8217;s Ambassador to Algeria, Mr. Yusuf Ahmed Hassan, also known as &#8220;Yusuf Jeego,&#8221; and the President of the Somali Bank for Development and Reconstruction, Ms. Hodan Adan Osman.<\/p>\n<p data-sourcepos=\"7:1-7:320\">While specific details of the discussions were not immediately released, the presence of such a high-level Somali delegation at the IsDB annual meeting and their direct engagement with the OPEC Fund signals Somalia&#8217;s ongoing efforts to attract investment and foster international partnerships for its development agenda.<\/p>\n<p data-sourcepos=\"9:1-9:473\">The OPEC Fund for International Development is <span class=\"citation-2 citation-end-2\">an intergovernmental development finance institution established by the member states of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries<\/span> (OPEC). It works to foster sustainable development, bolster self-reliance, and stimulate economic growth in developing countries. This meeting is expected to pave the way for potential future collaborations and financing opportunities for Somalia&#8217;s development projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algiers, Algeria \u2013 The Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mr. Bihi Imaan Ige, held a productive meeting with the President of the OPEC Fund for International Development, Mr. Abdulhamid Al-Khalifa, and other fund officials. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the annual gathering of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":441861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-441860","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\/441860","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\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441862,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441860\/revisions\/441862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}