34 Somali air control personnel have been officially relocated to Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, officials confirmed.
Somali Minister for Transport and Civil Aviation, Mohamed Abdullahi Salad told the reporters in Mogadishu that the staff that was at Flight Information Service of Somalia centre in Nairobi were transferred to Mogadishu.
“Today, We have received 34 personnel at airport and they will operate here in Mogadishu,” said Salad.
Salad said the government is committed to control its airspace inside Somalia.
“The government has today fulfilled its promises to regain and control its airspace. The government built the aviation control centre and equipped it well to the international standard so these personnel will make sure our airspace control is complete,” he boasted.
Somali government took over the control of its airspace late last year for the first time in decades.
The International Civil Aviation Organization has been controlling the air traffic over Somalia from Nairobi, the capital city of the neighboring Kenya before it officially handed over to Somali government.
The UN’s Aviation Agency started controlling the country’s airspace 1992 when Somalia descended into civil war.
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