Source:VOA News reporting from Somalia.

“International donors meeting in Brussels Monday pledged $2.7 billion as part of a ‘New Deal’ to help rebuild Somalia. As Henry Ridgwell reports for VOA from London, Somalia’s president said his country is undergoing a ‘remarkable transformation’ after two decades of civil war and lawlessness.”

From VOA News

“Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is the state-owned news network and international radio broadcaster of the United States of America. It is the largest and oldest of the U.S.-funded international broadcasters.[4][5][6] VOA produces digital, TV, and radio content in 49 languages, which it distributes to affiliate stations around the world.[7] Its targeted and primary audience is non-American. As of November 2022, its reporting reached 326 million adults per week across all platforms.[8]

VOA was established in 1942, and the VOA charter was signed into law in 1976 by U.S. President Gerald Ford.[9][10] It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and overseen by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent agency of the U.S. government.[11] Funds are appropriated annually under the budget for embassies and consulates. As of 2022, VOA had a weekly worldwide audience of approximately 326 million (up from 237 million in 2016) and employed 961 staff with an annual budget of $267.5 million.[2][12][13]

Voice of America is seen by some listeners as having a positive impact while others like lecturer Faizullah Jan of Pakistan’s University of Peshawar see it as both that and in addition as American propaganda; it also serves US diplomacy.”

From Wikipedia

There will never be real development in Somalia until they have a real national government that can govern the whole country. Somalia is a  pretty good size country, physically, but with only roughly ten-million people. And they also need state and local government’s that can govern their areas as well.

You can’t have economic development without security and you need a functioning constitution, that provides human rights that are enforced by government as well as a clean government, where corruption doesn’t run the show, where the people elected and the people who work for these officials are there to serve the people.

When you establish good, responsible, but limited government, then money will flow into the country both from the public and private sectors, as well as the international community.

Creating this New Deal in Somalia that comes with modern roads, bridges, airports. schools, hospitals, buildings, business’s all things that countries need to be successful where economic and job growth can be sustained for years to come.