Humanitarian aid trap: Somali official calls for state control over aid funds as ‘aid community actors are only accountable to themselves’
Budget support is justified, Ainte said, because the government is responsible for what happens in Somalia, even if the conflict means it does not control all of the country’s territory. Ainte did not specify which institutions might work with the government to programme any redirected money, though he mentioned it could be done by UN agencies.
United States donates over $200 million to war-torn Sudan amid major humanitarian crisis
The northeastern African country descended into chaos in April 2023 when simmering tensions between the country’s military and a notorious paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, exploded into open fighting in the capital of Khartoum.
