{"id":31358,"date":"2024-12-28T04:45:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T04:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailybigdigit.com\/?p=31358"},"modified":"2024-12-28T04:45:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T04:45:30","slug":"islamabad-big-digit-saudi-arabia-pledges-500-mln-to-address-yemeni-governments-budget-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailybigdigit.com\/?p=31358","title":{"rendered":"ISLAMABAD (Big Digit) Saudi Arabia pledges $500 mln to address Yemeni government\u2019s budget deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Rehan Khan<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD, Friday, 27 December 2024 (Big Digit): Saudi Arabia will provide $500 million to Yemen&#8217;s internationally recognized government to cover salaries and other expenses, a Saudi official said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The amount is part of the $1.2 billion package approved last year to support Yemen&#8217;s government, which was ousted from the capital, Sanaa, by Houthi forces in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The funds have been allocated to address the Yemeni government&#8217;s budget deficit, the official said, adding that Saudi Arabia had also disbursed $250 million each in February and August of last year.<\/p>\n<p>The official said, \u201cThese funds are intended to support salaries, operational expenses, enhance food security, and facilitate economic reforms, underscoring Saudi Arabia\u2019s commitment to Yemen\u2019s security, stability, and prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rehan Khan ISLAMABAD, Friday, 27 December 2024 (Big Digit): Saudi Arabia will provide $500 million to Yemen&#8217;s internationally recognized government to cover salaries and other expenses, a Saudi official said on Friday. The amount is part of the $1.2 billion package approved last year to support Yemen&#8217;s government, which was ousted from the capital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,33,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-news","category-national-news","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailybigdigit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailybigdigit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailybigdigit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailybigdigit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailybigdigit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailybigdigit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailybigdigit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailybigdigit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailybigdigit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailybigdigit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}