Somali cabinet approves $216m budget for 2016

Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke. PHOTO | FILE

The cabinet of the federal government of Somalia approved Thursday a $216 million budget for 2016.

Finance minister Mohamed Adan Fargeti told a Cabinet meeting that his ministry expected to generate 64 per cent of the budget from local revenues. The rest was envisaged to come from foreign donors.