{"id":453697,"date":"2025-12-23T17:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=453697"},"modified":"2025-12-23T17:25:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:25:31","slug":"parliament-approves-2026-national-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/parliament-approves-2026-national-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament Approves 2026 National Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"64\" data-end=\"226\">Mogadishu(SONNA)-Members of both chambers of the Federal Parliament of Somalia today held a joint session in which they approved the National Budget for the year 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"228\" data-end=\"456\">The approved budget amounts to 1,386,807,242 (one billion, three hundred eighty-six million, eight hundred seven thousand, two hundred forty-two US dollars), reflecting the government\u2019s financial plan for the upcoming year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"458\" data-end=\"607\">According to the voting results, 174 lawmakers voted in favor of the budget, four members voted against it, while one lawmaker abstained.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"609\" data-end=\"849\">Senior government officials attending the joint session emphasized the importance of the 2026 budget in strengthening state institutions, improving security, expanding social services, and supporting economic development across the country.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"851\" data-end=\"1051\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The approval of the 2026 National Budget is expected to play a key role in advancing the Federal Government of Somalia\u2019s development agenda and ongoing efforts toward stabilization and reconstruction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(SONNA)-Members of both chambers of the Federal Parliament of Somalia today held a joint session in which they approved the National Budget for the year 2026. The approved budget amounts to 1,386,807,242 (one billion, three hundred eighty-six million, eight hundred seven thousand, two hundred forty-two US dollars), reflecting the government\u2019s financial plan for the upcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":453698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-453697","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\/453697","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453699,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453697\/revisions\/453699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}