gegiroor wrote:Bosaso airport has the longest runaway in the Horn of Adrica. Eydoor kids stop hating. The another thing that gives more weight to Bosaso airport is it is built with PL leaders' sweat and effort while the airports in Berbera and Mogadishu were built by the former Somali government. Clear difference.
Bosasso airport is being upgraded by A Chinese firm with Italian funding.
A Chinese company has began building an airport in Bossaso town, the commercial capital of Puntland, a semi-autonomous state in northern Somalia.
Puntland President Abdiwweli Mohamed Ali Wednesday launched the project to be undertaken by China Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCECC).
President Ali stated that the project was being funded by Italy at a cost of $10 million.
The occasion in Bossaso town, 1,500 km northeast of Mogadishu, and facing the Gulf of Aden, was attended by UN and Italian officials.
President Ali stated that upon completion, the Bossaso airport would serve the whole of Somalia, adding that CCECC would complete the construction in 10 months.
The President underlined that CCECC had a good experience and expertise in carrying out civil works in Africa.
“Puntland chose CCECC for the job of constructing the Bossaso airport because it realised such ambitious projects as the Tanzania-Zambia railway line,” said President Ali.
In another development, Malta has announced its intentions to establish diplomatic relations with Somalia.
Malta Foreign minister George Vella and Somali diplomat Ali Said Faqi, signed an agreement on the fringes of an EU-Arab League conference in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday
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In common sense, how can a region with a total budget of 60 million upgrade an airport with 10 million dollars?
That's like 18% of their whole budget on a 2.5 km runaway.