{"id":450315,"date":"2025-10-18T07:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=450315"},"modified":"2025-10-18T07:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:34:27","slug":"somali-finance-minister-addresses-climate-impact-at-imf-world-bank-annual-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somali-finance-minister-addresses-climate-impact-at-imf-world-bank-annual-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali Finance Minister Addresses Climate Impact at IMF\/World Bank Annual Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>WASHINGTON D.C. (SONNA)<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 As the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank draw to a close, Somalia&#8217;s Minister of Finance, Hon. Bihi Iman Egeh, participated in a key plenary session chaired by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. The session brought together Finance Ministers from across the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>During the joint meeting, Minister Egeh delivered a brief address that focused specifically on the profound impact of climate change on the African continent&#8217;s economy and discussed potential solutions to mitigate its devastating effects.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the plenary, the Minister and his delegation held bilateral meetings with key international partners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>United Kingdom Delegation<\/strong>: Minister Egeh held a productive meeting with the UK delegation, where discussions centered on investment opportunities and strategies for recovering from the economic damage caused by climate change in Somalia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arab Monetary Fund (AMF):<\/strong> The Minister also held a constructive sideline meeting with the Director-General of the Arab Monetary Fund, Fahad Al-Turki. This discussion focused on ongoing economic reform, future investment plans, and development strategies. The AMF has been acknowledged for its important role in supporting Somalia&#8217;s financial reform process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Minister&#8217;s participation in these final high-level meetings confirms Somalia&#8217;s commitment to prioritizing both domestic financial reform and securing international support to address the critical economic threat posed by climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON D.C. (SONNA) \u2013 As the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank draw to a close, Somalia&#8217;s Minister of Finance, Hon. Bihi Iman Egeh, participated in a key plenary session chaired by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. The session brought together Finance Ministers from across the African continent. During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":450316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-450315","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\/450315","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=450315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450317,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450315\/revisions\/450317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}