Although the Upper House session where members of the parliament questioned the the annual government budget has Minister of Finance on the closure of the previously approved budgets – for progressively increased by around which they later formed a committee – the bicameral parliament approved the $816 million over the past 9 years, federal government 2022 budget on 30 June 2022. [...] This of Labor and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Education and means that the government projects a decline of $10 Higher Education, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of million of its anticipated domestic revenue of $260.1 Youth and Sport, and the Ministry of Women and Human million for 2021. [...] The budget was allocated to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education ($8.4 million), donor-funded education projects ($12.1 million), the Somali National University ($7.2 million), the Somali Academy of Science and Arts ($1.1 million), and the Intergovernmental Academy of the Somali Language ($1.4 million). [...] The The budget appropriated for the Ministry of Women orphans of the deceased armed forces and disabled forces and Human Rights increased from $990,644 million in were appropriated a mere $115,000, also the same as in the 2021 to $2.3 million in 2022. [...] The reduction of the percentage of the defense and security budget to 18.3 percent of the total budget is only a reflection of the significant budget increase in other sectors, particularly the social service budget.
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