{"id":445599,"date":"2025-07-22T16:29:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=445599"},"modified":"2025-07-22T17:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:30:38","slug":"finance-minister-welcomes-new-world-bank-country-manager-to-somalia-discusses-development-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/finance-minister-welcomes-new-world-bank-country-manager-to-somalia-discusses-development-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Welcomes New World Bank Country Manager to Somalia, Discusses Development Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 The Federal Minister of Finance, H.E. Bihi Iman Egeh, held an introductory meeting today with Mr. Hideki Matsunaga, the newly appointed World Bank Country Manager for Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting served as a platform for mutual introductions and strategic dialogue on strengthening the ongoing partnership between the Government of Somalia and the World Bank. Discussions focused on reviewing the progress of key development projects currently being implemented across the country, as well as the incoming Country Manager\u2019s priorities and vision for collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Bihi expressed his appreciation for the World Bank\u2019s continued support to Somalia, noting the importance of aligning joint efforts to accelerate the design, approval, and implementation of new development projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrong coordination and shared planning are critical to delivering lasting results for the Somali people,\u201d the Minister said, emphasizing the government\u2019s commitment to effective and sustainable cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting marks an important step in renewing momentum behind Somalia\u2019s economic recovery and development agenda under the leadership of the newly appointed World Bank representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 The Federal Minister of Finance, H.E. Bihi Iman Egeh, held an introductory meeting today with Mr. Hideki Matsunaga, the newly appointed World Bank Country Manager for Somalia. The meeting served as a platform for mutual introductions and strategic dialogue on strengthening the ongoing partnership between the Government of Somalia and the World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":445601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-445599","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\/445599","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=445599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445600,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445599\/revisions\/445600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}