Commercial Flights Start in Somalia
Posted on: Monday, 31 July 2006, 15:00 CDT
The airport at Somalia's capital Mogadishu, wracked by civil war, appears ready to resume commercial flights for the first time in several years.
A plane operated by Jubba Airways took off Sunday for the United Arab Emirates, an airline spokesman announced, reports the BBC. It was the first such flight in more than a decade.
Also on Sunday, Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi survived a no-confidence vote after his government, formed in 2004, was accused of being weak and having failed to bring peace in the country, the report said. The government is seen as having no power outside the town of Baidoa where it is based. Much of the rest of the country, including Mogadishu, is controlled by Islamist militias.
After the vote, the prime minister said it showed the Somalia's government is working.
Source: United Press International
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