{"id":3870,"date":"2019-11-19T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T11:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2019-11-19T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T11:51:21","slug":"somalia-still-in-talks-with-italy-over-shabelle-river-funds-planning-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2019\/11\/19\/somalia-still-in-talks-with-italy-over-shabelle-river-funds-planning-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia still in talks with Italy over Shabelle river funds &#8211; Planning Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU (SoOHA) &#8211;<\/strong> Planning Minister Gamal Hassan has dismissed media reports that the government failed to submit funding proposals leading to the withdrawal of funding by Italy meant for rehabilitation of Shabelle river banks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reacting to a story carried by Italian newspaper\u00a0<em>la Republica\u00a0<\/em>that the Italian government withdrew the funds, Hassan said the proposals had been submitted and discussions between the two governments are still underway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe FGS &amp; the Italian Gov\u2019t have been discussing the possibility of providing support for a flood protection project,\u201d the minister said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project proposals, Hassan said \u2018have been submitted to the Italian Gov\u2019t for their considerations &amp; the discussions r still ongoing. No project has been approved\/signed so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the\u00a0<em>la Republica,\u00a0<\/em>the Ministry of Agriculture failed to submit the proposals in time forcing the Italian government to withhold the funds and deferred the spending to 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The funds were meant to revamp the banks of the Shabelle river and build dams to establish a long term solution to the perennial floods in Beletweyne.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Goobjoog News<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU (SoOHA) &#8211; Planning Minister Gamal Hassan has dismissed media reports that the government failed to submit funding proposals leading to the withdrawal of funding by Italy meant for rehabilitation of Shabelle river banks. Reacting to a story carried by Italian newspaper\u00a0la Republica\u00a0that the Italian government withdrew the funds, Hassan said the proposals had been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-development","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}