(SomaliNet) Somali’s interim government announced on Sunday that it reopened the flights to and from the self break away republic of Somaliland after week of suspension – as the government also disclosed that it would resume the flight relationship with Kenya. The agreement reached in a meeting held inside the airport today between the officials of the civil aviation and the flight companies. Officials of the flight companies said they were ready to comply with the laws of the civil aviation in the transitional federal government.
On 26 August, SomaliÂ’s civil aviation department of the transitional federal government suspended all flights to and from the regions of Somaliland. The move came when Somaliland authority warned off the new e-passport saying anyone who holds that document will face eight years in prison.
Meanwhile, Somalia government also revealed today that it would resume its official flights to Kenya. In a news conference held in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia after being sworn for the post of Somalia ambassador to Kenya, Mohammed Ali America said the flights between Somalia and Kenya will be resumed. The Kenyan government closed its border with Somalia late 2006 when the Ethiopian backed Somali government forces drove the Islamic Courts out of the country.