# Hirshabelle Ministry of Finance and Economic Development: budget and revenue

> What Hirshabelle's finance ministry does, its budgets for 2025 to 2027, where its money came from in 2025, and the 2025 dispute over road taxes.

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Last checked: 2026-11-12
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## What it does

[Hirshabelle](/en/states/hirshabelle/)'s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development drafts the state's yearly budget bill and presents it to the Council of Ministers, which is chaired by the state president ([Radio Dalsan](https://radiodalsan.com/top-english-news/296111/hirshabelle-cabinet-approves-44-3-million-budget-for-2026); [Dawan Africa, 28 October 2026](https://www.dawan.africa/news/hirshabelle-state-approves-dollar4745m-budget-for-2027-up-7percent-from-2026)). It also collects state taxes, including taxes on goods carried on the main roads ([allAfrica, 11 August 2025](https://allafrica.com/stories/202508110001.html)).

## Who leads it

President Ali Abdullahi Hussein (Ali Guudlawe) reshuffled the cabinet in October 2025 by decree under Articles 56 and 57 of the Hirshabelle constitution ([allAfrica, 28 October 2025](https://allafrica.com/stories/202510280505.html)). Newly appointed ministers and deputy ministers, including for finance, were sworn in at the cabinet session that approved the 2026 budget ([Radio Dalsan](https://radiodalsan.com/top-english-news/296111/hirshabelle-cabinet-approves-44-3-million-budget-for-2026)).

## The budgets

| Year | Budget (US$) | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33.5 million | [Dawan Africa](https://dawan.africa/news/hirshabelle-approves-dollar335m-budget-for-2025) |
| 2026 | 44,355,094 | [Radio Dalsan](https://radiodalsan.com/top-english-news/296111/hirshabelle-cabinet-approves-44-3-million-budget-for-2026) |
| 2027 (cabinet approved) | 47.45 million | [Dawan Africa, 28 October 2026](https://www.dawan.africa/news/hirshabelle-state-approves-dollar4745m-budget-for-2027-up-7percent-from-2026) |

The cabinet approved the 2027 budget on 28 October 2026, at its first session after Guudlawe's re-election. [Dawan](/en/society/somaliland-newspapers/) Africa reported it as about US$3.1 million, or 7%, more than 2026. The same meeting discussed district elections, floods, the El Niño forecast and the Sabuun barrage on the Jowhar Offstream Storage Programme ([Dawan Africa, 28 October 2026](https://www.dawan.africa/news/hirshabelle-state-approves-dollar4745m-budget-for-2027-up-7percent-from-2026)).

## Where the money came from in 2025

Ministry of Finance data published by the Central Bank of Somalia give Hirshabelle's 2025 accounts as follows ([Central Bank of Somalia, Annual Report 2025](https://centralbank.gov.so/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Annual-Report_2025.pdf)):

| Item | US$ |
|---|---|
| Revenue and grants | 24 million |
| Own revenue | 8 million |
| Donor grants | 17 million |
| Spending | 24 million |
| of which salaries | 9 million |
| of which building | 1 million |

## Other records

In August 2025 Hirshabelle's Minister of State for Internal Affairs, [Mohamed Ahmed](/en/people/skinz/) Gacal, was dismissed after saying truck drivers faced burdensome and unregulated taxes on the roads of Middle [Shabelle](/en/economy/farming-and-harvests/). He had called on the finance ministry to put new tariffs before the state parliament for approval before enforcing them ([allAfrica, 11 August 2025](https://allafrica.com/stories/202508110001.html)).

## Related pages

[Institutions of the member states](/en/institutions/member-state-institutions/), [member states' money](/en/economy/member-states-money/), the [Puntland Ministry of Finance](/en/institutions/puntland-ministry-of-finance/) and the federal [Ministry of Finance](/en/institutions/ministry-of-finance/).

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