Airports
Somaliland Boosts Prospects with Redeveloped Airports
A Chinese mining company will upgrade Hargeisa Egal International Airport with a Kuwaiti consultancy advising on the projects.
A Chinese mining company will upgrade Hargeisa Egal International Airport with a Kuwaiti consultancy advising on the projects.

Somalia might conjure images of pirates and Blackhawk Down, but the northern autonomous region and former British protectorate of Somaliland remains a peaceful, although economically depressed, place. Last month the international airport at the capital, Hargeisa, “re-opened” following renovations and modernization, funded to the tune of $10 million by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development.