Somaliland bans commercial flights from Somalia

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Mogadishu 17, March.07 ( Sh.M.Network) The secessionist government of Somaliland stopped the flights from southern Somalia in fear of the pandemic of watery diarrhea that killed and weighed down the largest number of children, most of them under the age of 6 in southern Somalia.

A press release from the office of the minister for Somaliland air transportation, Ali Mohammed Adde, stated that all commercial flights from Somalia were barred from landing at Hargeysa international airport indefinitely.
The minister told journalists that several towns in southern and Northeast Somalia, including Mogadishu and Bosaso, were banned from landing in Somaliland. “To prevent spread of cholera in Somaliland, we decided to stop flights from southern Somalia”, he said.


Hundreds of children beset by the plague were admitted to public hospitals in Mogadishu while a large number of children succumbed to the disease.

Public schools in the coastal town of Merca, 100 km south of Mogadishu, have been turned into medical centers, while students were given one month of a vacation early last week after hundreds of children in the town were ailing form diarrhea.

And in the capital Mogadishu, more than 100 people, most of them children, have been admitted to Banadir hospital on 12 March after they were weighed down by watery diarrhea