Ali Ahmed Jama “Jangali”, the minister of Somalia’s transport and Civil Aviation has rebuffed reports of that the country’s airspace is being managed in Kenya a foreign office.
The minister said the international community gave Somalia as access to handle independently its airspace management after more two decades of conflict.
Mogadishu airport is currently upgraded to an international standard through a project funded by the Turkish government.
‘’Our airspace is now being controlled from Mogadishu and all the necessary equipments have been transferred already,’’ the minister told reporters during a press conference in Mogadishu.
After the collapse of Somalia’s central government in the 1991 civil war, the United Nations Development Program and the International Civil Aviation Organization founded a civil aviation caretaker authority for Somalia in Kenya’s capital Nairobi.
