Tuesday May 7, 2024
The agreement is signed at the KSrelief headquarters in Riyadh on Monday. (SPA)
Advisor at the Royal Court and General Supervisor of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabeeah and United Kingdom (UK) Minister of State for Development and Africa Andrew Mitchell signed on Monday a joint cooperation agreement with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to support multisectoral actions to combat severe acute malnutrition in Somalia.
KSrelief and the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) will contribute $2.5 million each.
The $5 million agreement, which was signed at the KSrelief headquarters in Riyadh, aims to provide access to nutrition, water, and hygiene services in 15 high-risk areas across six sectors in Somalia, benefiting 101,000 Somali children.
The agreement comes within the framework of joint humanitarian and relief projects between Saudi Arabia and the UK FCDO to alleviate the suffering of the Somali people.