Somalia: Japan to Resume Direct Aid to Somalia

Japan will resume direct aid to Somalia, focusing on improving socio-economic conditions, maintaining law and order and invigorating industries, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday (May 31st), Japan's Kyodo News International reported.

Japan has already pledged $55.4 million in aid to Somalia through various international organisations, but will now begin direct aid in order to "contribute to Somali nation-building in earnest", Abe said at a meeting with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and other dignitaries on the side-lines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development.

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