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Press release - EU aid to Somalia should focus on institution building, its President tells MEPs - Committee on Foreign Affairs

31/01/2013
« Somalia has been without a functioning state for 22 years » and its new government urgently needs EU assistance to help it build « strong state institutions », Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told MEPs on the Development and Foreign Affairs committees on Thursday. EU humanitarian aid « helped to save millions of lives » in Somalia but a new approach is now needed to consolidate the Somali state, he said. Committee on Foreign Affairs Source : © European Union, 2013 - EP

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