LONDON (Halbeeg News) – Somali prime minister, Mohamed Hussein Roble will tomorrow meet with UK counterpart Boris Johnson on the side line of Global Education Summit that will be taking place in London later this week.
PM Roble left for the United Kingdom Monday to attend the Education Summit
According to the government spokesperson, Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu, Roble will be also meeting with Dominic Raab is the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs.
During the meeting, the leaders will discuss Somalia’s elections.
“Somali Prime Minister Mohamed H Roble departs from Mogadishu and heading to London UK where he will be attending the Global Education Summit on Wednesday .PM will meet on Thursday with British PM and Foreign Secretary and other international leaders attending the summit Somalia,” Moalimuu said in a twitter post.
PM Roble will be attending the summit which will run between 28 and 29 July 2021. U.K. and Kenya will co-host summit which will call for action.
The Summit will raise funds for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), which has set a target of procuring $5 billion over the next five years to help ensure 175 million children get the opportunity to learn, according to Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
“Now with the impact of the Covid-19 and its knock effect on learning, we are at a critical junction. Previous progress sadly is at risk of being undone, and we know that girls have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic,” said UK Minister for the Middle East and North Africa James Cleverly.
It is estimated that a whopping $210 billion is required to tackle the shortfall in global education – which has forced many young people, particularly women, into unemployment and cycles of poverty in the Middle East and North Africa.
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