{"id":450062,"date":"2025-10-08T12:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=450062"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:07:03","slug":"somalia-dismisses-false-media-claims-on-secret-deal-with-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somalia-dismisses-false-media-claims-on-secret-deal-with-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia Dismisses False Media Claims on \u2018Secret Deal\u2019 with Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mogadishu, SONNA \u2013<\/strong> The Federal Government of Somalia has strongly rejected recent media allegations suggesting the existence of a so-called \u201csecret deal\u201d between Somalia and the Kingdom of Sweden linking development aid to deportations.<\/p>\n<p>In an official statement, the Office of the Prime Minister described the claims as false, misleading, and unfounded, emphasizing that Somalia has no secret or conditional arrangement with any partner regarding the return of its nationals or the allocation of development assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cooperation between Somalia and Sweden is long-standing, transparent, and grounded in mutual respect and international law,\u201d the statement read. It further underscored that all engagements between the two nations are conducted through formal diplomatic channels and are subject to cabinet oversight and institutional accountability.<\/p>\n<p>The government clarified that all development assistance to Somalia is managed through transparent mechanisms, including the World Bank, United Nations agencies, and the Federal Government\u2019s central financial system (Country System).<\/p>\n<p>The statement reaffirmed Somalia\u2019s commitment to upholding transparency and accountability in all its international partnerships and development cooperation frameworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, SONNA \u2013 The Federal Government of Somalia has strongly rejected recent media allegations suggesting the existence of a so-called \u201csecret deal\u201d between Somalia and the Kingdom of Sweden linking development aid to deportations. In an official statement, the Office of the Prime Minister described the claims as false, misleading, and unfounded, emphasizing that Somalia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":450063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-450062","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\/450062","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\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450064,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450062\/revisions\/450064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}