BRUSSELS: The European Union will provide some €63 million ($74.39 million) in humanitarian funding for Somalia, it said on Thursday. The country has been hit by fighting between Somali armed forces and Al-Shabab militants, as ⁠well as by droughts.

⁠The EU said its funding would prioritize life-saving health and nutrition services.

This ⁠latest aid package would mean it had provided more than €750 million in humanitarian aid to Somalia since 2017, added the EU.

The United Nations World Food Programme said earlier in February that its life-saving ⁠food ⁠and nutrition assistance in Somalia could end by April unless new funding was secured.

The EU did not specify when this aid would be provided.